All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.
George MonbiotDeregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
George MonbiotUntil now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.
George MonbiotAugust 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
George MonbiotGovernments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the countryโs most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.
George Monbiot