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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In 1930, Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin said this about Lord Rothermere: "the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own ... goes to your head like wine ... [such people seek] to dictate, to dominate, to blackmail." Let's hear our pols say it of Musk.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Revealing who owns England just became Government policy. Here's my blog post analysing this historic moment, as well as assessing some of the other ambitious policies unveiled in the Government's new Land Use Framework: whoownsengland.org/2026/03/19/r...
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Revealing who owns England just became government policy
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Yesterday, in their ambitious new Land Use Framework for England, the Government announced that they would be opening up the Land Registry. I’ve been campaigning for …
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵
This is utter garbage. I believe in net zero. We need to get there. But renewables are not competitive. That's why they are subsidised. Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive. It shouldn't be hard to hold these two thoughts at the same time.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Gas prices up by around 50% today. A painful reminder that relying on imported fossil fuels is a risky strategy.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Rotorbabe Recordings @rotorbabe25.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
It's not as if we weren't warned.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Let communities own rivers, woods & moors! Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way. We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Image of countryside with words reading: 'Let communities own rivers, woods & moors. Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws'
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Reeves backed higher council tax bands and a new property tax in this 2018 pamphlet.
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Now Dorset has published its draft Local Plan, with proposals for a new 3750 home suburb north of the town, I thought it worth reposting a blog I wrote about one of the landowners, 1 of the richest people in Dorset, and how they will make a tax free £330M profit. anewnatureblog.com/2020/10/29/j...
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Jenrick’s Planning Reforms have nothing to say about tax dodges
It’s the last day for responses to the Government’s latest proposals to reform the planning system, to “level up&#82…
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social’s warning about maize, also used for biogas. We seriously didn’t encounter a single insect in 170km of cycling through rural Brittany, heavily focused on maize. Deeply worrying. Only on day 3 as we rode on disused railways, spared from Roundup™️, did we spot a few.
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How a false solution to climate change is damaging the natural world | George Monbiot
George Monbiot: In growing maize for biogas, the crop that does most damage to the soil is being specifically exempted from the rules
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
2. As I show in my book, slavery profits are the missing piece in our so-called domestic story of enclosure and the loss of the commons.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Here, @westcountryvoices.bsky.social have compiled my thread on the utterly bonkers mismanagement of Dartmoor into an easy-to-read article: westcountryvoices.co.uk/prepare-your...
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'Prepare yourselves for a story of breath-taking perversity'
This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breath...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If we don't respond, the answers will be dominated by the very people who got us into this mess. Decisions about land use all too often fall prey to reactionary politics. So please, even if only briefly, fill out the consultation form. Thanks.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A "potential" 0.43% increase in GDP *by 2050* - in return for torching the UK's climate leadership and adding vast amounts of carbon to the atmosphere - is simply not worth it. No third runway. Grow the green economy, not airports. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Rachel Reeves confirms backing for third runway at Heathrow – UK politics live
The chancellor says she wants plan for runway brought forward by summer and criticises Conservatives for not acting to build runway
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Shaun Spiers @shaunspiers1.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Evergreen.
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