The elixir of life – in a poisoned chalice?
July 10, 2014 9:35 am Leave your thoughts
Longevity science may divide us into treated and untreated: the first living ever longer, the second dying even younger than now, writes George Monbiot.
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The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom
July 1, 2014 7:55 am Leave your thoughts The principal threat to expression comes not from state regulation but from censorship by editors and proprietors, writes George Monbiot.
Saving the world should be based on promise, not fear
June 18, 2014 7:41 am Leave your thoughts For 30 years I banged on about threats. But research shows we must to be true to ourselves - and to the wonder in nature, writes George Monbiot.
The only way to fairness in housing is to tax property
June 3, 2014 8:46 am Leave your thoughts Help to Buy and the other government schemes merely lock in place an unjust system which rewards those in power, writes George Monbiot.
The Impossibility of Growth
May 30, 2014 2:08 pm Leave your thoughts It's the great taboo of our age - and the inability to discuss the pursuit of perpetual growth will prove humanity's undoing, writes George Monbiot.
Highland Spring?
May 20, 2014 10:21 am Leave your thoughts The scoured, scorched Highlands could be brought to life - maybe an independent nation will have the courage to act, writes George Monbiot.
Welcome to Britain, the new land of impunity
May 7, 2014 7:18 am Leave your thoughts No matter the criticisms made or damage done, fat cats and politicians seem able to cling on. Often their efforts are rewarded, writes George Monbiot.
This cash for grouse scandal shows how Britain has become a plutocrats’ paradise
April 30, 2014 8:20 am Leave your thoughts We subsidise the landed gentry and their shotguns. While the poor are plunged into brutal insecurity, the rich are untroubled, writes George Monbiot.
So, after the IPCC report, which bit of the world are you prepared to lose?
April 2, 2014 5:01 pm Leave your thoughts George Monbiot asks: When people say we should adjust to climate change, do they understand what that actually means?
How Big Tobacco’s lobbyists get what they want from the media
March 19, 2014 8:10 am Leave your thoughts With cigarette packs on the agenda, the BBC must be asked why it lets thinktanks argue the tobacco companies' case without revealing who their paymasters are, writes George Monbiot.