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2 days ago

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival

It’s no longer even pretending. Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most pr…

20 days ago

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes

“He’s really gone and done it this time. Now everyone can see what a disaster he …

30 days ago

Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent

The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Sta…

36 days ago

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot

Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital

The democratic recession does not beg…

59 days ago

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot

He is surrounded by people who have grandiose plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Don…

70 days ago

Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal

If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European part…

74 days ago

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot

It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves

Though we might find it hard to imagine, we cannot n…

81 days ago

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot

If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?

This might sound astonishing, but the UK government’s core prog…

3 months ago

Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot

Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got

Seldom in recent history has class war been waged so blatantly. Generally, billionaires …

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