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There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading

Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election

Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true

Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull

Feeding the world sustainably is an incredibly complex challenge, yet some people are trying to sell us a bucolic fairytale, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps?

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

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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today

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

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

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care

Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you?

I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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

He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US?

So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US – if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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

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, writes columnist George Monbiot

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

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

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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this?

Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market

Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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

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

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This society lauded a police officer who lied and cheated and ruined lives. At last, a reckoning

As a ‘spy cop’, Bob Lambert callously betrayed innocent women. The official inquiry must ask harsh questions of him – and the state, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion

The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29

What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him

Voters have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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US politics live: Women’s marches hit the streets in support of Harris as both candidates target east coast – as it happened

Harris leading Trump in new Iowa poll in startling reversal, pulling ahead of Trump 47% to 44%

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Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights?

A vote for Donald Trump next week is also a vote for Elon Musk. He’ll have even greater power than the US president, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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