The Shortfall
I try to work out how much money would be needed to restore a functioning state.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd November 2023
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Shitshow
Toxic chemicals deliberately added to sewage are being spread across a vast area of farmland, with potentially catastrophic effects. We’re suing the government to stop it.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2023
Extreme Prejudice
The government, under its own new definition, is an extremist organisation.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th November 2023
No Excuses
War crimes have no justification, whoever commits them.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th October 2023
The System, Unmasked
Clinically vulnerable people are among the many realities denied in the endless drive for “normality”.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th October 2023
Necroculture
The mass release and shooting of pheasants trashes our ecosystems – and our humanity.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th October 2023
It’s one of the bluntest expressions of class power in the United Kingdom. Like all expressions of class power, it has become normalised until we treat it as a fixed fact of national life. I’m talking about the Bronze Plague that spreads over the British lowlands every year, wiping out much of our wildlife: pheasants.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023
Trainwreck
How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th September 2023
What’s Your Poison?
Why do we put up with daily assaults on our health? It has everything to do with corporate power.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd September 2023