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2026-05-07 08:26:26 GMT

There is a way out of our political spiral, and it is thrilling and inspiring. We could have a very different country.
This week's column.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/07/technique-heal-britain-division-hard-right-radical-listening-constituency-volunteers )
[Imagine a technique that can h...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/07/technique-heal-britain-division-hard-right-radical-listening-constituency-volunteers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2026-03-21 09:38:44 GMT

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

2026-02-16 08:53:36 GMT

I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b7kamuwqipovlbz2l5vhe2tb/post/3mevfzvpbgk2e

2026-02-13 10:13:46 GMT

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

2026-02-13 09:09:10 GMT

This morning we will hear the result of the judicial review of the government's ban on Palestine Action, on the grounds that it's a "terrorist" organisation. An important moment, which could have a major influence on freedom of speech and association in this country.

2026-02-11 16:27:36 GMT

Most of the media, most days:
Morning: "Capitalism must go further! further! further!"
Afternoon: "Oh my God, how did that happen?"

2026-02-10 18:22:16 GMT

Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/10/peter-mandelson-new-labour-jeffrey-epstein-corporate-power )
[There is a lot of convenient a...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/10/peter-mandelson-new-labour-jeffrey-epstein-corporate-power?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2026-02-10 07:31:24 GMT

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
[rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...](https://rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/is-our-government-complicit-in-genocide/ )
🧵
[Is our Government Complicit in...](https://rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/is-our-government-complicit-in-genocide/ )

2026-02-09 07:55:07 GMT

1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction.
Read on.🧵

2026-02-05 10:35:36 GMT

For years, Starmer's critics on the left have warned that he was trashing Labour values, kowtowing to the rich and powerful while hurting the poor and the living world.
Every time, people here and elsewhere leapt up to call us "closet Tories" and "Reform enablers".
Funny how they've gone so quiet.

2026-02-04 12:26:58 GMT

Very important article by Josephine Lulamae, with warnings for those who may be tempted by narratives of rural revivalism and "Uncivilisation".
“Any group that follows a purity mentality, seeking deep, unadulterated roots in nature, risks nativist thinking.”
[www.codastory.com/polarization...](https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-identitarians-are-back-how-a-discredited-worldview-dominates-the-global-agenda/ )
[The Identitarians are back: Ho...](https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-identitarians-are-back-how-a-discredited-worldview-dominates-the-global-agenda/ )

2026-02-04 07:49:17 GMT

1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
[www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...](https://www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2181/ )
[Correspondence with Noam Choms...](https://www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2181/ )

2026-02-03 07:32:04 GMT

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
[www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...](https://www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/mandelsons-fifth-column/ )
[Mandelson’s Fifth Column](https://www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/mandelsons-fifth-column/ )

2026-02-02 08:20:35 GMT

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

2026-01-30 15:24:33 GMT

This should be a great evening. Oxford, Thursday.
See you there.
[www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-syste...](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-systems-at-the-heart-of-the-ecological-emergency-tickets-1981930955841 )
[Food Systems at the Heart of t...](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-systems-at-the-heart-of-the-ecological-emergency-tickets-1981930955841 )

2026-01-30 15:18:08 GMT

To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote":
1. Things have changed.
2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit)
3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.

2026-01-30 12:42:09 GMT

A Green victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election would feel like divine justice.

2026-01-28 07:18:40 GMT

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security )
[The UK government didn't want ...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security )

2026-01-27 17:02:09 GMT

This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security )
[The UK government didn't want ...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2026-01-23 11:30:06 GMT

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

2026-01-16 18:18:38 GMT

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/super-rich-inequality-politicians-extreme-wealth )
[At the root of all our problem...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/super-rich-inequality-politicians-extreme-wealth )

2026-01-14 07:20:44 GMT

Any weaponry the UK has acquired from or developed with the US is likely to contain a kill switch, making it inoperable if the US government does not endorse its use. This includes our entire nuclear arsenal. As old alliances rupture, we find ourselves sitting on a multi-billion pile of bricks.

2026-01-13 07:44:22 GMT

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends.
Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is.
[www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-are-still-the-states-responsibility )
[Palestine Action hunger strike...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-are-still-the-states-responsibility )

2026-01-12 17:22:48 GMT

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. [www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/hunger-striker-heba-muraisi-linked-palestine-action )
[Imprisoned hunger striker link...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/hunger-striker-heba-muraisi-linked-palestine-action )

2026-01-12 12:31:56 GMT

Never forget: the people who hate their country most are those who style themselves "patriots".
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2026-01-12 10:27:52 GMT

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

2026-01-10 10:51:13 GMT

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

2026-01-07 08:07:03 GMT

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government )
[Let’s be clear: if the Palesti...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government )

2026-01-07 07:05:02 GMT

In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves".
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/04/donald-trump-uk-rearmament-vladimir-putin-defence )
[I never thought I’d argue for ...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/04/donald-trump-uk-rearmament-vladimir-putin-defence )

2026-01-06 17:04:14 GMT

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

2026-01-05 12:27:32 GMT

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

2026-01-05 08:17:57 GMT

Not one word of condemnation by our government of Trump's illegal act of war in Venezuela.
Not one word.

2026-01-03 10:14:02 GMT

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

2026-01-03 09:25:15 GMT

The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.

2026-01-01 08:51:08 GMT

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

2025-12-23 07:58:22 GMT

Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
[www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/22/families-of-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-seek-urgent-meeting-with-lammy )
[Families of Palestine Action h...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/22/families-of-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-seek-urgent-meeting-with-lammy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-12-22 07:17:42 GMT

Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
[www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/21/two-palestine-action-linked-hunger-strikers-taken-to-hospital-amu-gib-kamran-ahmed )
[Two Palestine Action-linked hu...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/21/two-palestine-action-linked-hunger-strikers-taken-to-hospital-amu-gib-kamran-ahmed )

2025-12-19 08:33:09 GMT

The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3

2025-12-16 11:48:50 GMT

1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWUKFUaoL4 )
[GREENWASHED | Full Documentary...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWUKFUaoL4 )

2025-12-15 07:51:31 GMT

Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply.
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13

2025-12-12 06:46:50 GMT

Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/europe-migrants-birth-rates-immigration-countries )
[The facts are stark: Europe mu...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/europe-migrants-birth-rates-immigration-countries )

2025-12-11 09:07:19 GMT

1. We've had a huge response to the launch of the Earth Rover Program, above all from small farmers, especially in Africa. Farmers all over the world are highly attuned to the need for a better understanding of soil, and have immediately seen the potential. 🧵 1/10
[www.earthroverprogram.org](https://www.earthroverprogram.org/ )
[The Earth Rover Program](https://www.earthroverprogram.org/ )

2025-12-10 10:56:39 GMT

How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
[www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...](https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/09/starmer-urges-europe-leaders-update-echr-halt-rise-far-right )
[Starmer urges Europe’s leaders...](https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/09/starmer-urges-europe-leaders-update-echr-halt-rise-far-right )

2025-12-10 07:09:07 GMT

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
[www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...](https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds )
[Just 0.001% hold three times t...](https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds )

2025-12-09 08:47:35 GMT

I signed the letter calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. Overnight, I've received some 2,000 attack emails, identical text but different purported senders and subject headers. Still coming through now. Other signatories also getting it. Definitely an op.
[www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/leading-cultural-figures-call-for-release-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti )
[More than 200 leading cultural...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/leading-cultural-figures-call-for-release-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti )

2025-12-07 10:22:08 GMT

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

2025-12-05 06:55:46 GMT

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 [www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program )
[Over a pint in Oxford, we may ...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program )

2025-12-04 08:41:36 GMT

Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
[share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6...](https://share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6tRUe9 )
[Wes Streeting orders inquiry i...](https://share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6tRUe9 )

2025-12-03 10:26:47 GMT

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

2025-12-01 10:12:25 GMT

Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/01/uk-sue-foreign-oligarchs-corporations-litigation-offshore-courts )
[Hello, foreign oligarchs and c...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/01/uk-sue-foreign-oligarchs-corporations-litigation-offshore-courts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-11-27 13:09:32 GMT

Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@npub1tsq…zc7j). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&cid=bafkreidiwlwx2i2kib3hja2qwh7vtsjtri77cjxoa5wsztcobulhmnkaxu

2025-11-21 08:06:58 GMT

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. [www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/21/black-hole-in-climate-data-climate-sceptics-extreme-heat )
[There’s a catastrophic black h...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/21/black-hole-in-climate-data-climate-sceptics-extreme-heat?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-11-20 14:03:41 GMT

Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care.
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6lNFx8tI )
[How To Platform Socialist Idea...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6lNFx8tI )

2025-11-19 11:11:24 GMT

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/24/dead-goldfish-licensed-waste-disposer-system-falling-apart )
[Britain through the looking gl...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/24/dead-goldfish-licensed-waste-disposer-system-falling-apart )

2025-11-16 12:12:44 GMT

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
[www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/nature-not-blocker-housing-growth-inquiry )
[Nature not a blocker to housin...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/nature-not-blocker-housing-growth-inquiry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-11-15 11:41:51 GMT

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
[www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/14/no-10-tells-labour-mps-it-expects-support-for-tough-new-asylum-policies )
[No 10 tells Labour MPs it expe...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/14/no-10-tells-labour-mps-it-expects-support-for-tough-new-asylum-policies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-11-14 06:47:45 GMT

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich )
[Dark forces are preventing us ...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich )

2025-11-13 08:38:48 GMT

Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&cid=bafkreibive5h5yazrjmj2ufr2t3kncmdawm6lnlls5qcdn3jz4ugtzps3u

2025-11-12 19:39:33 GMT

Given that the far right hates Black and Brown people, hates women, hates immigrants, hates liberals, leftists and greens, hates students and universities, hates civil servants, hates disabled people, hates gay and trans people and hates Jews and Muslims, what is this country it claims to love?

2025-11-11 18:17:50 GMT

The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it.
[www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/milan-prosecutors-investigate-alleged-sniper-tourism-during-bosnian-war )
[Milan prosecutors investigate ...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/milan-prosecutors-investigate-alleged-sniper-tourism-during-bosnian-war?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-11-11 08:01:12 GMT

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&cid=bafkreic3glartcmo4sk6nkjjm64daxn5d76cibi66zpazhhzn7yjcxyjrm

2025-11-10 06:16:40 GMT

This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3m5aw5dhwok2h
#note1gn3…mpc3

2025-11-10 05:44:33 GMT

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

2025-11-09 10:55:39 GMT

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
[lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...](https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/ )
[Maybe Don’t Talk to the New Yo...](https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/ )

2025-11-08 08:19:46 GMT

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/08/bill-gates-climate-crisis-billionaire-essay-cop30 )
[I wish we could ignore Bill Ga...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/08/bill-gates-climate-crisis-billionaire-essay-cop30?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-11-07 18:59:23 GMT

The government has STILL not cleared out the highly partisan decision-makers imposed on the BBC by the Tories. Starmer and co are so amazingly spineless and feeble.
[www.theguardian.com/politics/202...](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/07/boris-johnson-trying-to-undermine-bbc-leadership-insiders-fear-after-leak )
[Boris Johnson trying to underm...](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/07/boris-johnson-trying-to-undermine-bbc-leadership-insiders-fear-after-leak )

2025-11-07 06:35:48 GMT

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

2025-11-06 07:11:58 GMT

1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
[www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/opinion/democrats-trump-congress.html )
🧵
[Opinion | James Carville: It’s...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/opinion/democrats-trump-congress.html )

2025-11-05 07:58:01 GMT

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

2025-11-05 06:49:03 GMT

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

2025-10-23 06:44:07 GMT

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/written-constitution-reform-uk-autocrats )
[We must act now: without a wri...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/written-constitution-reform-uk-autocrats )

2025-10-22 07:22:45 GMT

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3m3q2p4y76k2u
#note1huc…t8u6

2025-10-21 19:25:38 GMT

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3m3pnobvdnc2r
#note1n4k…yvpm

2025-10-21 15:32:30 GMT

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/antibiotic-resistance-farms-food-production-uk-eu )
[Beef, pork, chicken: the world...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/antibiotic-resistance-farms-food-production-uk-eu )

2025-10-16 06:59:51 GMT

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/15/labour-housing-memo-leak-steve-reed )
[A leaked memo, a Maga-style ha...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/15/labour-housing-memo-leak-steve-reed )

2025-10-16 05:52:55 GMT

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/16/labour-england-nature-housing-planning-bill )
[Wage war on nature to build ne...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/16/labour-england-nature-housing-planning-bill )

2025-10-14 10:21:44 GMT

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
[www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...](https://www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/the-cruel-fantasies-of-well-fed-people/ )
[The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fe...](https://www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/the-cruel-fantasies-of-well-fed-people/ )

2025-10-14 06:40:14 GMT

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. [www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/keir-starmer-protest-labour-rights-uk )
[Here’s what you need to know a...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/keir-starmer-protest-labour-rights-uk )

2025-10-13 14:56:56 GMT

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/keir-starmer-protest-labour-rights-uk )
[Here’s what you need to know a...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/keir-starmer-protest-labour-rights-uk )

2025-10-11 08:22:26 GMT

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
[www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...](https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/11/michelle-mone-doug-barrowman-ppe-medpro-vip-lane-ppe-contracts-dhsc )
[Will UK taxpayers get their £1...](https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/11/michelle-mone-doug-barrowman-ppe-medpro-vip-lane-ppe-contracts-dhsc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-10-10 09:14:03 GMT

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
[mastodon.social/@sundogplane...](https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115345346648445621 )
[Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplane...](https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115345346648445621 )

2025-10-08 06:08:57 GMT

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
[www.theguardian.com/society/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/08/scientists-say-they-have-first-blood-test-to-diagnose-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me )
[Scientists develop first ‘accu...](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/08/scientists-say-they-have-first-blood-test-to-diagnose-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me )

2025-10-07 17:45:08 GMT

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
[www.theguardian.com/environment/...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/rachel-reeves-clears-planning-blockage-amid-good-relationship-with-developer )
[Rachel Reeves clears planning ...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/rachel-reeves-clears-planning-blockage-amid-good-relationship-with-developer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-10-07 07:43:24 GMT

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

2025-10-04 06:24:37 GMT

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. [www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/04/crashed-bike-pothole-cost-cycling )
[It hurt when I crashed my bike...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/04/crashed-bike-pothole-cost-cycling?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2025-10-03 10:43:31 GMT

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

2025-10-02 13:30:37 GMT

How many people think to themselves, "I'd vote Labour, if only they could be more like Trump." I would guess it's a number close to zero.
But Labour seems to be chasing a figment of its imagination, and this is perhaps the most grotesque example so far.
[www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...](https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/labour-party-conference-housing-chief-steve-reed-tips-a-hat-to-trump )
[Labour Party Conference: Housi...](https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/labour-party-conference-housing-chief-steve-reed-tips-a-hat-to-trump )

2025-09-29 10:35:18 GMT

Trying again, as the original article has now vanished.
‪
I don't know who wrote this anonymous memo: [archive.ph/5imGV](https://archive.ph/5imGV ) But its themes and language overlap strongly with some of the things the "Labour" peer Maurice Glasman said in this discussion: [podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lord-maurice-glasman-dame-penny-mordaunt-george-monbiot/id1435506937?i=1000727248880 )
[archive.ph/5imGV](https://archive.ph/5imGV )

2025-09-26 09:33:41 GMT

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

2025-09-26 07:53:55 GMT

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

2025-09-24 05:10:22 GMT

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

2025-09-22 05:40:13 GMT

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler.
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

2025-09-20 06:51:55 GMT

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/20/journalist-40-years-forces-profession-power )
[I have now been a journalist f...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/20/journalist-40-years-forces-profession-power )

2025-09-17 08:06:40 GMT

I'll be speaking at the Stop Trump demo in Parliament Square today. A fascist autocratic clearly itching to declare martial law is not welcome here.
[share.google/sWEe8YGl3euj...](https://share.google/sWEe8YGl3eujns5JQ )
[Trump Not Welcome | 17 Septemb...](https://share.google/sWEe8YGl3eujns5JQ )

2025-09-14 13:24:07 GMT

Far right organisers in this country consistently side with foreign billionaires over our democratic institutions.
They are not patriots.
They are quislings.

2025-09-11 12:25:15 GMT

A very disturbing thing I missed in researching this week's column. Three of the four junktank ultras hired by Labour to groom civil servants are named in this investigation of a Westminster network involving the disgraced eugenicist Andrew Sabisky. [investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...](https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabisky-westminster-network/ )
[Unravelling Westminster’s secr...](https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabisky-westminster-network/ )

2025-09-11 08:34:23 GMT

We have struggled to explain the Starmer government. But I think the explanation comes down to two simple forces:
1. A visceral, obsessive hatred of the Labour left. Any progressive policy, however necessary and popular, looks to the inner circle like a dangerous concession to the left.
🧵1/2

2025-09-11 06:11:33 GMT

Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ...
This week's column.
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/11/tories-rightwing-junktanks-no-10-government-civil-servants )
[Warning! The rightwing junktan...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/11/tories-rightwing-junktanks-no-10-government-civil-servants )

2025-09-09 13:08:11 GMT

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

2025-09-09 06:15:19 GMT

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
[www.theguardian.com/environment/...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/bottom-trawling-to-continue-in-english-protected-waters-government-rules )
[Bottom trawling to continue in...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/bottom-trawling-to-continue-in-english-protected-waters-government-rules )