The Merdas Touch
Here is the real reason why Keir Starmer’s government refuses to let us have a fair electoral system.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th February 2026
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30 x Never
Even the intelligence services are gagged by the government when they try to tell the truth about our planetary crisis.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th January 2026
Money Talks
The grim truth is that almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th January 2026
A Hunger for Justice
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will be responsible.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th January 2026
Dumb and Dumber
How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2025
Mincing Our Words
The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2025
Most of what you eat is sausages. I mean, if we’re going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means “seasoned with salt”. You might think of a sausage as a simple thing, but on this reading it is everything and nothing, a Borgesian meta-concept that retreats as you approach it.
Hatewashed
How a new film stitched me up like a kipper.
By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 16th December 2025
This is a note about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target.
Total Futility Rate
Let’s focus our campaigning on things we can actually change.
By George Monbiot, published as a BlueSky thread, 15th December 2025
Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, I’ll seek to lay it out simply. This note explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
The residual rise is due to:
Arc of History
Immigration is the only thing that will keep wealthy nations viable.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th december 2025
Shaking It Up
A eureka moment in the pub could help transform our understanding of the ground beneath our feet.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th December 2025
It felt like walking up a mountain during a temperature inversion. You struggle through fog so dense you can scarcely see where you’re going. Suddenly, you break through the top of the cloud, and the world is laid out before you. It was that rare and remarkable thing: a eureka moment.