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Articles from George Monbiot

Planning His Own Demise

May 16, 2025 - 22:46 -- Admin

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.

The Commoner-Kings

May 12, 2025 - 17:17 -- Admin

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.

Pasturised

May 12, 2025 - 13:52 -- Admin

The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025

Arrested Over Tea and Biscuits

April 7, 2025 - 20:31 -- Admin

It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April 2025

The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.

A New World

April 2, 2025 - 15:44 -- Admin

You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.

By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 2nd April 2025

One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools – neoliberalism and fascism – it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives.

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