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George Monbiot

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This society lauded a police officer who lied and cheated and ruined lives. At last, a reckoning

It’s the testimony we’ve long been waiting for. On Monday, at the undercover policing inquiry, the man whose cruel and disgusting deceptions have...

28.11.2024 100

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George Monbiot

Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion

We now face, on all fronts, a war not just against the living planet and the common good, but against material reality. Power in the United States...

21.11.2024 100

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George Monbiot

Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29

Imagine, as many people do, an all-seeing eye in the sky, looking down on planet Earth. Imagine seeing what it sees. It watches, over the course of...

15.11.2024 70

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Trump voters want a revolution. It’s time for progressives to offer their own

We were losing slowly. Now we are losing quickly. Democracy, accountability, human rights, social justice – all were rolling backwards as money...

07.11.2024 6

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George Monbiot

Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights?

This is what happens when successive US governments fail to tackle inequality. While millions of people live in poverty, a handful grow...

02.11.2024 200

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George Monbiot

Trump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not

Dear US voters, in the spirit in which I would beg a dear friend not to get a facial tattoo, I’m writing to ask you not to vote for Donald Trump....

29.10.2024 300

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George Monbiot

Maeve Boothby O’Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen?

How could this happen in the 21st century? This question could apply to many issues, but this one sends you reeling. A brilliant and lively young...

18.10.2024 200

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George Monbiot

Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions

This will be Keir Starmer’s HS2: a hugely expensive scheme that will either be abandoned, scaled back or require massive extra funding to...

11.10.2024 100

The Guardian

George Monbiot

Once thought to be extinct, the mysterious night parrot is back in the news! Is it saved?

27.09.2024 20

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George Monbiot

Beware the great green deception: ‘perceptionware’ is being used to hoodwink us

Let’s talk about perceptionware. Perceptionware is technology whose main purpose is to create an impression of action. Whether it will ever work...

12.09.2024 100

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George Monbiot

Dear ministers, I am a climate crisis campaigner: nationalise me right now

There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalised. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor trains, nor development...

28.08.2024 70

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George Monbiot

These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting

“Fight, fight, fight,” senior Tories urged for years. Now they express shock, and condemn the results, when people prove stupid enough to have...

06.08.2024 80

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George Monbiot

Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all

On a calm and beautiful morning off the coast of south Devon last week, I was watching a small pod of dolphins from my kayak. I had spotted them...

24.07.2024 400

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George Monbiot

Labour can end austerity at a stroke – by taxing the rich and taxing them hard

Never let your opponents define the terms of a debate. All too often, Labour has allowed the Conservatives and the billionaire press to demonise...

14.07.2024 30

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George Monbiot

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