Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Articles by George Monbiot

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

A network of public bodies are supposed to safeguard us from flooding. But, like old boys’ clubs, they are bastions of self-interest, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Out of 1,500 global climate policies, only 63 have really worked. That’s where green spin has got us

Grand schemes, many backed by governments, masquerade as positive action on the environment. They should be disowned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

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

We are nonplussed every time one emerges – but there are patterns that are totally predictable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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

Why have politicians outsourced the most important issue of our time to private agencies and individuals? We can’t do it all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

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

These new proteins could be our best hope of averting catastrophe. But governments are trying to have them banned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

‘Two-tier justice’ in Britain is real – but it’s not what the right says it is

Compare the rioters’ prison sentences with those of Just Stop Oil. How can our justice system claim to be blind, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

For those with power and rich donors – the AC is always on, even if it’s melting outside

This has been a summer of extreme heat around the world. The Guardian is investigating how it harms our planet and leaves the world’s most vulnerable people exposed to its impact

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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

Because the Conservatives had nothing to offer the people of the UK, they sought to refocus our attention on scapegoats, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

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

It would raise $250bn to help offset some of the damage the super-rich cause. Yet they’ll do everything to stop it in its tracks, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

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

In a kayak off the Devon coast I witnessed the kind of entitled mindlessness that has ravaged society, and our planet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy

The right to protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

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

The focus on growth to ease the UK’s economic ills will not be nearly enough, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

I never thought I’d argue for rearmament. But a looming Trump presidency changes everything

A Putin-friendly president would pose a grave danger to Europe. Like it or not, this calls for greater defence, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies

If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

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

As it celebrates 200 years, the RSPCA is helping endorse indefensible abuse in factory farms, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Does Labour’s manifesto deliver what the country needs? Our panel’s verdict

Our experts previously revealed what pledges they wanted to see from Keir Starmer in The manifesto Britain needs. Are they impressed by the real thing?

The Guardian - UK

Who should hold the next prime minister to account? Our best hope lies with the Green party

The party’s manifesto, which pledges to use a wealth tax to revitalise our public services, shows it can push Labour to raise its ambitions, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

General elections are a travesty of democracy – let’s give the people a real voice

Our system is designed for the powerful to retain control. Participatory democracy and a lottery vote are just two ways to gain real representation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Who are the real extremists? The people challenging injustices or those trying to shut down our rights?

Look at a new report proposing horrifying clampdowns on protest – and ask where the threat to our society truly lies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel

Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards

Even as neoliberalism destroys our dreams of a better life, politicians tell us ‘there is no alternative’. But there is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’: George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist

Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer

The Guardian - UK

I have a cure for our ailing democracy: ban all donors, British and foreign. Run politics on membership fees

Our system is full of loopholes and vulnerable to millionaires’ and plutocrats’ demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

How the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers

Soiled seas and huge dividends: where has the £64bn borrowed by firms since privatisation gone, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name

Marcus Decker dared to protest the climate crisis and was punished. Now he could be deported, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Environment Agency

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.