Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th November 2024 We were losing ...

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

Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.

An astonishing thing is happening at sea, but the government, backed by an entire “scientific” discipline, seems determined to stifle it.

The livestock industry is furiously lobbying to shut down alternatives, and tame politicians are giving it what it wants.

Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.

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 ...

I had an unhappy time at university, and I now regret having gone to Oxford, even though the zoology course I took – taught, among others, by Richard Dawkins, Bill Hamilton and John Krebs – was ...

How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.

A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Published by Verso Books.

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 ...