#Monbiot

When people talk about "the madness of crowds", as many have done recently, I suspect most are unaware of the politics they're invoking. Mostly without knowing it, they're drawing on
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Powerful column by @NickCohen4 on the extreme rightwing culture warriors who began their political lives in the deeply weird far-left cult that Frank Furedi built among his students: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the
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How long do we on the left keep giving George Monbiot a pass simply because he's good on re-wilding and neoliberalism, when he keeps invests his credibility in propping up
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The #HS2 protesters are heroes. HS2 is the Concorde of the 21st Century: a money-guzzling, carbon-pumping white elephant that - if it ever comes to fruition - will serve the
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This was always the real Brexit agenda: ripping down public protections.https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1349824358978609156 Here's what I wrote in 2017 about what we would lose and what we would gain from Brexit. It's
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Grotesque demand from @georgemonbiot that the Government ban ‘lies’. A child of six could work out that governments empowered to ban lies could limit any criticism on such grounds.Trust the
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This outrageous article from Monbiot needs fact-checking. It’s very easy to reveal that Monbiot lies, peddles mistruths & makes glaring omissions when it comes to population. I’ll do it when
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I respect George Monbiot hugely but this kind of evidence-free take is beneath his own high standards. It's also typical of environmentalists whose expertise in transport planning is minimal. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/
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This statement is bone-chilling. The government “is not responsible for the supply of food and drink to the population in an emergency”. What the hell is government for, if not
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You can watch my very rare outing on the BBC today, here. You can see why they keep me off:https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000pb94/politics-live-12112020 I'm grateful to have been allowed on air by @BBCPolitics,
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It baffles me how a hack who does not go to Syria and has no problems whitewashing crimes of al-Qaeda in Syria thinks anyone would find him credible on Syria.#Monbiot
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The mysterious, relentless rise of members of the fake left/extreme right RCP network, at least one of whose outlets has been funded by Charles Koch, continues.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/dismay-over-adviser-chosen-set-up-
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Another reminder of why they call economics "the dismal science". Here's why this "natural capital" approach is deeply flawed - unless you're hoping to make a killing from nature.https://www.theguardian.com/comme
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Remember: the reason we are locking down for a 3rd time is because of the government’s failure to contain the virus. Containment means an effective test, trace, isolate and support
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I'm sorry to deflate the mood, but I think it's now time to face some cold realities. 1. It's brilliant that Trump lost, but Biden epitomises the reasons why Trump
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It's 2021 - not 1984 - and George Monbiot has just noticed we still don’t have a Ministry of Truth.Join with me in his campaign to institute one by helping
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