Legal Limbo
Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th July 2025
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Biocide
The government’s proposed new rules will allow a flood of toxic chemicals to be sold in the UK.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd July 2025
It’s what the extreme right of the Tory party wanted from Brexit: to tear down crucial public protections, including those that defend us from the most brutal and dangerous forms of capital. The Conservatives lost office before they were able to do their worst. But never mind, because Labour has now picked up the baton.
Rinsed
England’s privatised water system leaves us incapable of responding sensibly to droughts.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th July 2025
Wink Murder
How “humour” opens the door to far right politics.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th July 2025
Protest, While You Still Can
Without resistance, a combination of new laws and new technologies of control will rush us towards dystopia.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th July 2025
No one can be trusted with power. Any government will oppress its people if not constantly and inventively challenged. And the task becomes ever-more urgent as new technologies of surveillance and control are developed.
The Grip of Power
Cynical operators seek to divide rural and urban people. But what we want is fundamentally the same.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th June 2025
Driving Us Mad
A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2025
There appear to be two main determinants of what infrastructure gets built. The first is whether it provides large and lucrative contracts for powerful corporations. The second is whether ministers can pose beside it in hard hats and yellow jackets. Otherwise, it is hard to explain the decisions made.
How to See the Sea
Protection should be the default state of the oceans.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th June 2025
Four-Year Plan
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
Planning His Own Demise
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.