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George Monbiot

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We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem

We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem

I realise this is a serious breach of etiquette. But could we perhaps abandon good manners and contextualise Donald Trump’s attack on Iran? The...

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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why

These are burning, smoking lies. As oil and gas prices soar, thanks to the US and Israel’s attack on Iran, the UK’s opponents of climate policy...

13.03.2026 10

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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself

Our political memory fails us. We treat government policies as if we’re seeing them for the very first time. But much of what appears to be novel...

05.03.2026 10

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How is Reform’s charmless candidate still a contender in Gorton and Denton? Ask Labour

Every barb Labour has directed at the Greens can now be returned with interest. “It’s a wasted vote.” “Do you want to see Reform in power?”...

25.02.2026 10

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Ella Baron on Keir Starmer’s last supper – cartoon

10.02.2026 5

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There is a lot of convenient amnesia about Peter Mandelson’s New Labour days. Let’s jog some memories

10.02.2026 10

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If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice

04.02.2026 80

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The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised

27.01.2026 40

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At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich

16.01.2026 250

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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility

07.01.2026 250

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A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way

27.12.2025 70

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When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby

20.12.2025 90

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The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction

12.12.2025 300

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Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark!

05.12.2025 8

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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

05.12.2025 10

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Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions

01.12.2025 9

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There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers

21.11.2025 10

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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage

14.11.2025 20

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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t

08.11.2025 20

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We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation

23.10.2025 7

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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick

16.10.2025 100

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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth

13.10.2025 10

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It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity

04.10.2025 10

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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here

27.09.2025 10

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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful

20.09.2025 10

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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10

11.09.2025 10

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Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski’s Greens

03.09.2025 10

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Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’

28.08.2025 10

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I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too?

30.07.2025 10

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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead

23.07.2025 10

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High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025

17.07.2025 10

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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke

10.07.2025 7

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What’s that brain? I should look at the internet some more? OK if you say so

04.07.2025 7

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Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but this repressive government is

04.07.2025 8

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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England

28.06.2025 6

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Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them?

24.06.2025 9

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Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message

13.06.2025 10

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There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading

09.06.2025 10

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How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election

27.05.2025 10

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Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true

15.05.2025 10

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New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull

07.05.2025 20

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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps?

01.05.2025 10

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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

24.04.2025 10

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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature

13.04.2025 6

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Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today

03.04.2025 10

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How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

28.03.2025 9

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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on UK farmland? The answer won’t make you happy

21.03.2025 10

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Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you?

16.03.2025 10

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The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why

05.03.2025 10

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The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US?

27.02.2025 10

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