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 ...

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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 ...

Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem.

If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.

Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem.

The BBC’s promotion of dark-money lobby groups no longer looks like an accident. It looks like a policy.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...