Perhaps we could call it wink murder. When people become desensitised by ironic calls for violence, the difference between a humorous position and an ideological conviction can begin to break down.

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 ...

Archive of his syndicated column about international and British politics and issues, arranged by topic.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28 th June 2025 ...

It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands.

The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine.

Visit the post for more.Speech to the Climate March, 3rd December 2005. By George Monbiot. I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human ...

Darwin tells us that we are no more than assemblages of complex molecules. We should celebrate this. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 16th August 2005 All is not lost in America. When ...

The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 22nd November 2004 If human beings were without sin, we would still live in an ...