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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The false economy of reduced public services

Letters: Jeremy Cross says disjointed policies are trapping people in poverty and isolation, while Monica Hall considers the cost of potholes. Plus letters from Derrick Joad and Colin Burke

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It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10

Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Zack Polanski’s victory brings hope for a new kind of politics

Letters: Readers respond to articles on the election of the new Green party leader

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Send in your questions for the Guardian’s climate assembly panel

We would like to hear your questions about the climate crisis and we will put a selection of them to our panel

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Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski’s Greens

By caving to the hard right and corporate greed, Labour has left a gaping hole the new Green party leader is best placed to fill, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’

A tournament in Cornwall will pit anglers against these magnificent creatures, as part of a rising trend for so-called ‘sportfishing’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too?

Around the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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What is the word for deaths in Gaza?

Brief letters: Government v BBC | Punching down | Sycamore Gap and Grenfell | Planting trees | Minister for drought

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The left must learn to take (and make) a joke

Letters: Readers respond to an article by George Monbiot on how rightwing people and parties use humour to promote toxic ideas

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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke

Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Deadly heatwaves are the new reality – we need to transform the UK’s cities and towns to survive them

While we work towards net zero, we also need to adapt. And we can pay for cooling measures like splash pads and trees by taxing the worst polluters, says green campaigner Hannah Martin

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We have only ourselves to blame for the UK’s land monopoly

Letters: The most effective way to neutralise its power would be through land value taxation, writes John Digney, while Robin Gutch recalls an 18th-century landowner who moved a village

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Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is

The home secretary is apparently an admirer of the suffragettes. I have no doubt that if they were active today she would proscribe them, too, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Labour ought to think small on infrastructure

Letters: Guardian readers respond to George Monbiot’s column about plans for the Lower Thames Crossing

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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England

This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them?

The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Tackle industrial fishing, but local inshore fleets deserve support

Letters: Tom Collinson stands up for local fishing fleets, Christopher Hird is worried that after Attenborough’s Ocean everyone will think ‘job done’, and Dr Sally Campbell urges the UK to ratify the UN high seas treaty

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Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message

The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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