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George MonbiotThe Guardian |
This is what democracy looks like: hundreds of people queueing in the rain, seeking to take back control of a political system that treats voters like...
It’s a benefit of Brexit – but only if you’re a manufacturer or distributor of toxic chemicals. For the rest of us, it’s another load we have...
It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century. For decades, patients with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) have...
There’s a flaw in the plan. It’s not a small one: it is an Earth-sized hole in our calculations. To keep pace with the global demand for food,...
Step back a pace to see how weird this is. Last week, the prime minister of the United Kingdom joined a protest against one of the UK’s four...
I’m as likely to be selected for the national gymnastics team. But bear with me awhile, to imagine that, like David Cameron, I’m about to be...
The national care service, abolishing the House of Lords, a wealth tax: one by one, the Labour party has identified its best proposals and destroyed...
Why are peaceful protesters treated like terrorists, while actual terrorists (especially on the far right, and especially in the US) often remain...
Many explanations are proposed for the continued rise of Donald Trump, and the steadfastness of his support, even as the outrages and criminal charges...
When environmental activists calling for less pollution sit in the streets, across Europe they are now abused and attacked, arrested and handed...
The weather was worse than forecast. By the time I reached Bristol, at 5pm, all trains to the south-west had been cancelled, because of rising flood...
There are elements of fascism, elements borrowed from the Chinese state and elements that reflect Argentina’s history of dictatorship. But most of...
Everything that makes campaigning against fossil fuels difficult is 10 times harder when it comes to opposing livestock farming. Here you will find a...
Let’s face it: climate summits are broken. The delegates talk and talk, while Earth systems slide towards deadly tipping points. Since the climate...
Don’t they have children? Don’t they have grandchildren? Don’t rich and powerful people care about the world they will leave to their...
Many names have been proposed for our pathology: Thatcherism, Reaganism, austerity, Trussonomics. But they are all synonyms for the same ideology, a...
It’s an experiment with 8 billion test subjects, no controls and no endpoint. What happens when you release thousands of novel chemicals, most of...
As good citizens, we are told, we should report extremism to the authorities. It hasn’t always been clear what this term means, so we should be...
Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile to most lifeforms? I...
For almost 4,000 years, some governments have insisted that if wars must be fought, there should be rules. The first known code, by the Babylonian...
F or some people, going to hospital may now be more dangerous than staying at home untreated. Many clinically vulnerable people fear, sometimes with...
I t’s one of the bluntest expressions of class power in the United Kingdom. Like all expressions of class power, it has become normalised until we...
I n 2010, when a high-speed rail line from London to the north – HS2 – was proposed by the outgoing Labour government, I wrote an article arguing...
T here are some things we rightly find intolerable, such as the possession of poorly trained, aggressive dogs. There are other things, whose impacts...
I t was one of the abiding mysteries of public life. How did Piers Morgan rise so far? I see him as a buffoon, a bully, a windbag. Yet, despite...
E conomic power seldom needs to discipline those who might challenge it. Most of the time, they do it to themselves. However extreme the ideologies...