Keir Starmer has accidentally given us four years in which to build a new political system. We should seize the chance.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2025
This feels terminal. The breaches of trust have been so frequent, so vast and so decisive that the voters Labour has already lost are unlikely to return. In one forum after another, I hear the same sentiments: “I voted for change, not the same or worse.” “I’ve voted Labour all my life, but that’s it for me.” “I feel I’ve been had.”
Keir Starmer’s attack on our planning system is an almost-perfect repeat of Boris Johnson’s disaster. Why can’t he see that?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th May 2025
The precedent is uncanny, and the failure to learn from it downright mystifying. Keir Starmer is rushing gladly towards the catastrophe Boris Johnson inflicted on himself in 2020. Had he set out to stymie Labour’s chances of re-election, he couldn’t be doing it better.
Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers.
By George Monbiot, adapted from a Bluesky thread, 11th May 2025.
This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity.
The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025
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How I’ll be voting this election and why.
It’s not often that we get the chance to directly influence the manner in which the Australian Government deals with a continuing genocide.
With that, I thought I’d give you a rundown on what will guide my vote, and how I’ll be voting in the Senate.
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th April 2025
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Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?
“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”
Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.