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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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The question in my mind is how out of touch with reality does someone need to be to buy such things during a climate emergency? How many Telegraph editorials add up to a downpayment on one of these contraptions? Or is it a giant Up-Yours to other people and the rest of the living world?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2w ago

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Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Abandoned, dismissed and gasli...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

Call me old-fashioned, but I do think we could be losing our sense of proportion. www.theguardian.com/environment/... Harry Potter fans force reloca...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

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The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/... Minister tells Brits to stock ...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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In either case, unless you genuinely need such a thing for your work, I will think of you as an immoral person if you own one. And I believe we should all start thinking that way.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

Instead of using a photo of the current conflagrations caused by climate breakdown, the Telegraph uses a pic of a wind turbine burning ... in February 2025. Because that's the important thing: 17 months ago a turbine ignited. Caption: "It’s time to cease building wind turbines". #FossilFuelStooges RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3mrtwyxamm22n

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I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

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I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 5d ago

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There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qiz5bd6ierfiykcuvzmjaj4e/post/3msrws2lgvw23

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🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned… By Byline Times raising The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious… https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/reform-uk-and-big-tech-palantir-co-founder-peter-thiels-political-pipeline-recruitment-project-at-the-world-renowned-university-revealed?utm_source=x&utm_medium

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 3w ago

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A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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Land Rover also does a Discovery Metropolitan edition. The name suggests it's for use in cities. Because you never know how high the kerb / cyclist / pedestrian you need to mount might be. And because there must be no limit to the pointless environmental harm you inflict.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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There's an organic exceptionalism at work: I'm a good consumer because I eat only organic eggs / pasture-fed meat etc. In many cases these have a higher, sometimes MUCH higher, environmental impact. The worst of all farm products are organic beef and lamb. www.theguardian.com/environment/... The most damaging farm product...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

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The question that keeps occurring to me is this: If a group of people had taken office with the deliberate intention of destroying the global standing, democratic claims, credibility and power of the United States, what would they do differently? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Trump says every adult America...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1w ago

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It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Ed Miliband to acknowledge Lab...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

When I discuss huge systemic issues, people say "but what I can I do?" When I mention something meaningful you can do immediately, people say (as the replies here show) "but what's the point, in the face of the huge systemic issues?" There are, it seems, plenty of people who want to be helpless. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3mrrfgsthjs2z

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It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/... Organic eggs have worse impact...

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It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/29/organic-eggs-climate-caged-chickens-carbon-emissions-environment

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2w ago

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Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

I'm glad to see this. It's what many of us have been arguing for a long time, but until now no one in government seemed ready to listen. Let's hope we will begin to see an education policy which works for children, and for the 21st Century. In The Times today.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

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People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Nepal flash flood: more than 1...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

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Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202... Dry weather sewage discharges ...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... sciencedirect.com/science/articl...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 3w ago

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy & @lucasamin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

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We do not build the reservoirs needed to store the rain that falls here. We do not build strategic food reserves needed to maintain provision in hard times. We failed to build effective stores of PPE, to protect us in pandemics. This country has long been governed by people who do not prepare.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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The result in the UK is a country that now keeps hundreds of political prisoners, a country in which you can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the street. Protest here is acceptable as long as it’s useless. Let the people have their say, but only if we can’t hear them.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Seven charged with damaging Tr...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1w ago

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Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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It's not new. The BBC favoured the right and extreme right from the very beginning. But the rightwing media has managed to persuade us that it's a left-liberal institution, and has used this myth to push it ever further rightwards. This book should be widely read. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... The BBC

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

@privateeyenews.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy this week reveals the shocking ignorance of two BBC Countryfile presenters - one of whom, Adam Henson, is a livestock farmer - about the treatment of farm animals. I see such lapses as *professional ignorance*: there are things that are safer not to know.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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We tend to exonerate ourselves by selectivity: I don't eat horrible feedlot beef! But the land use and greenhouse gas emissions from the nice-looking, grass-fed model are massively worse. We should stop looking at the pictures and start looking at the numbers.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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And on the same front page:

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2w ago

I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2w ago

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Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1w ago

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Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The expansion of Heathrow woul...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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Burnham urgently needs to engage on this. Retaining Mahmood as Home Secretary is a disastrous start. Let's hope he sees sense. Nothing is safe from the billionaire assault on humanity. None of our rights, however ancient & familiar, are impregnable. Fight for them now or lose them, perhaps for ever.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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The globalisation of this attack on our fundamental rights is a key conservative aim. As capital operates everywhere, so should its ability to crush our objections. The many vicious anti-protest laws in the UK are an outcome of sustained lobbying by junktanks, the media and other governments.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

I wrote this last year, but as nothing has been done to address the underlying issues, it remains, unfortunately, just as relevant today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... High water bills, filthy river...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

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80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 2mo ago

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One day, I also intend to uncover the Law of Waistbands, which somehow ensures that my trousers shrink in the winter and expand again in the summer. This is some deep phsysics, which has so far resisted explanation.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

· 1mo ago

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The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.

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