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The Latest Articles by George Monbiot

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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook

A highly misleading new documentary claims soil carbon storage can redeem the livestock industry – it’s all so much ‘moo-woo’, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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From the playground to politics, it’s the bullies who rule. But it doesn’t have to be this way

At every stage of our lives we are forced into destructive competition. It’s not natural, and it holds the best people back, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid

There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Britain is becoming a toxic chemical dumping ground – yet another benefit of Brexit

Perhaps our government imagines bulldog spirit will protect us from the dangerous substances that Europe rules unsafe, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal

The notion that this illness is psychosomatic is having devastating effects, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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We need to talk about water – and the fact that the world is running out of it

On a planet becoming hotter and drier by the year, governments are wilfully ignoring a looming crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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What’s going on in Wales? Real farmers duped by ‘outrage’ farmers, and a clueless Sunak along for the ride

Farmers in Britain have real reasons to be angry, but this protest against reasonable green policy has become a culture war, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Labour must act to save the environment – here’s my three-point plan

Carbon budgets that add up, proper protection for Britain’s land and sea, and replacing GDP with a wellbeing index. What Guardian columnist George Monbiot wants for Labour’s manifesto

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If disillusionment is all Keir Starmer delivers as prime minister, I fear Labour will shrivel and die

It’s as if the leader is deleting all the reasons to vote for his party, and bowing to a destructive rightwing agenda, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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In a world built by plutocrats, the powerful are protected while vengeful laws silence their critics

In the UK and around the world, those who challenge rich corporations are being hounded and crushed with ever-more inventive penalties, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer

US culture is an incubator of ‘extrinsic values’. Nobody embodies them like the Republican front runner, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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