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 ...

How could this happen in the 21st century? The question could apply to many issues, but this one sends you reeling. A brilliant and lively young woman with a common illness was repeatedly disbelieved, ...

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 ...

The sentences were handed down just as Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina. As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into rivers and residents were killed, in the placid setting ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a comprehensive list of my sources of income, and any hospitality or gifts I receive (except from family and friends), and the income tax I pay, beginning in September 2011. I have opened this ...

Every week, sometimes every day, someone writes to me asking for advice about the career they should take. I can’t, unfortunately, respond to them all, so I thought I should try to formulate some ...

At great personal risk and with forged travel documents, George Monbiot bluffed, cheated and forced his way into the remotest place in the tropics: the forbidden territories of West Papua (Irian Jaya) ...

“Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity’s first global democratic revolution.” All over our planet, the rich get richer while the poor ...

This is a collection of some of George Monbiot’s Guardian essays. “George Monbiot makes one proud to be a journalist. His passion for social and ecological justice is undimmed by 21st-century cynicism ...

Almost everyone in public life participates in the assault on truth.