An astonishing thing is happening at sea, but the government, backed by an entire “scientific” discipline, seems determined to stifle it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th September ...

The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics. Every time one of these characters emerges, we are nonplussed by them. We react as if we’re dealing with something new, and appear to have ...

The bodies meant to protect us from floods are unaccountable, self-serving and feudal in character. No wonder they keep failing.

The bodies meant to protect us from floods are unaccountable, self-serving and feudal in character. No wonder they keep failing.

There’s a new asset class being traded between corporations. It’s called children in care.

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

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

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 ...

It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.

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 ...

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