Just when hope and courage are called for, Labour promises bean-counting
April 17, 2015 11:23 am Leave your thoughts
Labour's focus on cutting the deficit means progressive voters will have to look elsewhere for inspiration, writes George Monbiot.
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Let’s not fool ourselves. We may not bribe, but corruption is rife in Britain
March 23, 2015 7:17 am Leave your thoughts Allegations of a cover-up at Scotland Yard show that the British are as prone to malfeasance as any other nation, writes George Monbiot.
Our government’s big green idea: let’s subsidise natural disasters
February 28, 2015 3:58 pm Leave your thoughts Britain pays billions to support farming, and then billions to repair the catastrophic damage it causes, writes George Monbiot.
Some deny society exists. Let’s prove them wrong
February 4, 2015 6:07 pm Leave your thoughts There's more to life than consumerism. But to find it we need new models of supporting each other, writes George Monbiot.
With this attack on community energy the big six win out over ‘big society’
January 27, 2015 3:18 pm Leave your thoughts By changing the rules, this government has sabotaged the promise of a UK community energy revolution and secured the dominance of the big six energy companies, writes George Monbiot.
The TTIP trade deal will throw equality before the law on the corporate bonfire
January 20, 2015 8:14 am Leave your thoughts The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a reckless destruction of democratic principles. But we can beat it, writes George Monbiot.
Why leaving fossil fuels in the ground is good for everyone
January 9, 2015 8:21 am Leave your thoughts As a new report is published on the need to limit fossil fuel production to stop dangerous global warming, the UK is poised to pass an act committing governments to extracting as much oil out of the ground as possible, writes George Monbiot.
If you found treasure worth thousands would you declare it?
January 6, 2015 11:20 am Leave your thoughts It's a morality tale for our times: three old rogues had two options. They could reveal their find or say nothing, and share it, writes George Monbiot.
If you must eat meat, save it for Christmas
December 21, 2014 2:56 pm Leave your thoughts From chickens pumped with antibiotics to the environmental devastation caused by production, we need to realise we are not fed with happy farm animals, writes George Monbiot.
Taming corporate power: the key political issue of our age
December 11, 2014 9:43 am Leave your thoughts Big business and its lobbyists have taken control of our politics. But there is an alternative. In the first of a new series, here's how we can take on the fat cats, writes George Monbiot.