An astonishing thing is happening at sea, but the government, backed by an entire “scientific” discipline, seems determined to stifle it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th September ...

The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics. Every time one of these characters emerges, we are nonplussed by them. We react as if we’re dealing with something new, and appear to have ...

Conservation is becoming one of the greatest threats to the global environment.

A new Channel 4 series would be laughable, had it not been given three hours of prime time TV.

I had an unhappy time at university, and I now regret having gone to Oxford, even though the zoology course I took – taught, among others, by Richard Dawkins, Bill Hamilton and John Krebs – was ...

George Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the ...

Every week, sometimes every day, someone writes to me asking for advice about the career they should take. I can’t, unfortunately, respond to them all, so I thought I should try to formulate some ...

“Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity’s first global democratic revolution.” All over our planet, the rich get richer while the poor ...

At great personal risk and with forged travel documents, George Monbiot bluffed, cheated and forced his way into the remotest place in the tropics: the forbidden territories of West Papua (Irian Jaya) ...

Almost everyone in public life participates in the assault on truth.

A potent myth is being used to justify economic capture by a parasitic class.