There’s an urgent need to replace our total mess with a codified constitution.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  23rd October 2025

After two years in Brazil, I felt I understood its political system better than I understand the UK’s. The reason is a short book in simple language that almost everyone owned: the constitution, published in 1988. Admittedly, I discovered the document’s limitations while trying to explain its principles to a furious captain of the military polic...