Population Panic
The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history,
and is used by the rich to transfer blame.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th
August 2020
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Finding Our Feet
Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting,
crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th
August 2020
Watery Grave
Across the UK, our rivers are being
turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.
By George Monbiot, published in the
Guardian 12th August 2020
You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its
rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of corruption. So what should we
conclude about a country whose rivers are systematically exploited, dumped on
and bled dry?
Dysbiosis
The great
majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the
pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd July 2020
Contract Killers
Coronavirus deals
worth billions of bounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual”
companies, without advertising or competition.
By George Monbiot,
published in the Guardian 15th July 2020
Road to Perdition
How did wildlife
groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2020
Lying In State
History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a
host of atrocities.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June
2020
Sold Out
The government intends
to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our
public protections.
By George Monbiot,
published in the Guardian 10th June 2020
Rings of Power
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not so much a democratic leader as a monarch with a five-year term.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd June 2020
Culpable Negligence
The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th
May 2020