Archive of his syndicated column about international and British politics and issues, arranged by topic.

Books by George Monbiot: The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) (16 May 2024, Allen Lane). Co-written with Peter Hutchison. ISBN: 9780241635902. Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet (26 May 2022, Allen Lane) ISBN 978-0241447642. This Can’t Be Happening (26 August 2021, Penguin Classics)

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 exc…

Jul 25, 2024 · An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go. George Monbiot, interviewed by The Ink, 9th July 2024 TI: Can you walk us through how you define neoliberalism” — the “Invisible Doctrine” of the book’s title.

Feb 1, 2025 · Build baby, build. That’s about the intellectual limit of the government’s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let’s “bulldoze” the planning system and build more homes. But it’s not nearly so simple. Moreover, in the absence of policies to reduce the cost of housing, even if ...

Aug 16, 2021 · Protecting the natural world means creating tomorrow’s ancient habitats. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8 th August 2021. We have a slow food movement and a slow travel movement.

Mar 29, 2020 · This coronavirus is the wake-up call for a complacent civilisation. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25 th March 2020. We have been living in a bubble: a bubble of false comfort and denial.

Nov 19, 2021 · Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts.

Sep 2, 2024 · It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28 th August 2024. There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalised.

Oct 24, 2021 · To avert environmental disaster, we need sudden and drastic change. Impossible? No, it has been done before. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20 th October 2021. Fatalism creeps across our movements like rust.