Do new technologies make autocrats impossible to overthrow?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th July 2021
Democracy depends on an equality of arms. If governments acquire political weapons unavailable to their opponents, they become harder to dislodge. They now possess so many that I begin to wonder how an efficient autocracy, once established, might ever again be overthrown.
Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st July 2021
Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th July 2021
How the media stoked the climate crisis.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2021
Yes, we should rake over the coals. And the oil, and the gas. Democratic accountability means remembering who helped to stoke the climate crisis. We should hold the fossil fuel companies to account.
A famine is being forced on the people of Tigray, the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th June 2021
People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd June 2021
How big would our housing crisis be if it were not for second homes? It’s a question almost no one in public life wants to ask, let alone answer. But it becomes more urgent every day.
Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th May 2021
The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th May 2021
Once again, through gross neglect, the government is in danger of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Its astonishing dithering over the Indian variant of Covid-19 sustains its unbroken record of incompetence and procrastination.
When we get ripped off by con artists, in most cases we no longer have any recourse. It’s the result of disastrous political choices.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th May 2021
The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcome.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th May 2021