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It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government

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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this?

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Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market

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Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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 continue,...

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George Monbiot

As the waters rise, a two year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

The sentences were handed down just as Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina. As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into...

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

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George Monbiot

A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them all killed?

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been watching one of the greatest natural spectacles on Earth, here in south Devon. At a certain station of the...

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George Monbiot

More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal

Labour’s first stage of government resembles a vast forensic excavation. As it works through the Conservatives’ midden of horrors, it discovers an...

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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 at...

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These 21st-century demagogues aren’t mavericks – they’ve repeated on us throughout history

I’ve been thinking about a famously orange-skinned former presenter of trashy TV programmes, who lives on a luxurious coastal estate. He has a...

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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...

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George Monbiot

Everyone loves a tiny baby stingray-looking thing. IS THE MAUGEAN SKATE SAVED?

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The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win

For many years, certain car manufacturers sought to obstruct the transition to electric vehicles. It’s not hard to see why: when you have invested...

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George Monbiot

Peaceful protest is being punished more severely in Britain than racist rioting – that’s the real ‘two-tier’ justice

A functioning society depends on equality before the law. If crimes are not treated equally and dispassionately by the justice system, we lose...

14.08.2024 60

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...

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Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future

Who is government for? It’s a question we should never stop asking. The answer that keeps coming back is “not the majority”. For example, the first...

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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...

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Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws

How do you know when protest tactics are working? When governments ban them. The oppressive laws introduced by the previous government – the...

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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...

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It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government

George Monbiot

Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this?

George Monbiot

Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market

George Monbiot

Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

As the waters rise, a two year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them all killed?

George Monbiot

More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

These 21st-century demagogues aren’t mavericks – they’ve repeated on us throughout history

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

Everyone loves a tiny baby stingray-looking thing. IS THE MAUGEAN SKATE SAVED?

George Monbiot

The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win

George Monbiot

Peaceful protest is being punished more severely in Britain than racist rioting – that’s the real ‘two-tier’ justice

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot

Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws

George Monbiot

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

George Monbiot