By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16 th October 2025 ...

This Labour government would have banned the Labour movement – alongside all the other protests that secured our freedoms.

Austerity costs us a fortune.

There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab. We now know that it’s not ...

George Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the ...

This will be Keir Starmer’s HS2: a hugely expensive scheme that will either be abandoned, scaled back or require massive extra funding to continue, after many billions have been spent. The ...

Alongside the genocide, the Israeli government is destroying the ecosystems of Gaza, perhaps permanently.

With one breath, the friends of power told us that global capitalism was a dynamic, disruptive force, the source of constant innovation and change. With the next, they told us it had brought about the ...

Yes, we are pro-nuclear, but the proposed Hinkley C plant should be scrapped.

England’s privatised water system leaves us incapable of responding sensibly to droughts.

Forgive me if I’ve got this wrong, but I seem to recall the country voting the Tories out last year. Part of the reason, if I remember correctly, was their staggering incompetence and insouciance, ...

There are elements of fascism, elements borrowed from the Chinese state and elements that reflect Argentina’s history of dictatorship. But most of the programme for government announced by Javier ...