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Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.
Keir Starmer’s attack on our planning system is an almost-perfect repeat of Boris Johnson’s disaster. Why can’t he see that?
Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers. By George Monbiot, adapted from a Bluesky thread, 11th May 2025. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment ...
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.
Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.
Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1 st October 2024 The sentences were ...
It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.
An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go. George Monbiot, interviewed by The Ink, 9th July 2024 TI: Can you walk us through how you define neoliberalism” ...
Labour must repeal the laws that led to shockingly disproportionate prison sentences for environmental protesters. As we approach the Earth systems horizon, governments and corporations have gone to ...
Oligarchy is the default state of politics, and it is surging back. How do we stop it? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27 th June 2024 We are about to return to normal politics. After 14 ...
By appointing extremists to set the limits of free speech, the government protects powerful interests from challenge.
The appalling mistreatment of ME/CFS patients continues, based on the myth that it’s all in the mind.