The Urge to Destroy
It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th April 2025
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Arrested Over Tea and Biscuits
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.
How Capitalism Crashes Democracy
It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th March 2025
A New World
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.
First Sight of Land
For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.
By George Monbiot. This is my response to the government’s Land Use Consultation, sent on 23rd March 2025.
RIP FFS
As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st March 2025
If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.
Pro-Social Hoarding
We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th March 2025
I hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that over the past month I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should do the same.
Fossil Record
Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th March 2025
Axis of Autocracy
If the US is now our enemy, how do we defend ourselves?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th February 2025
All the talk now is of how we might defend ourselves without the US. But almost everyone with a voice in public life appears to be avoiding a much bigger and more troubling question: how we might defend ourselves against the US.
Nigel Says Thanks
By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd February 2025
If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.