Social justice and environmental justice are one and the same thing.

Listening to the FT podcast where they say Mahmood is McSweeney's top choice of successor and the idea that Starmer will go but the man most responsible for his catastrophic unpopularity will get to choose the next PM is, um, optimistic on his part

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...

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature. Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing. It's our duty to work out why, and act on it. share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...

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...

This week on my newsletter, What's Left? I interviewed a hero of mine @georgemonbiot.bsky.social! We cover money/power, poshos in Westminster, participatory democracy, Brexit, Trump, naked mole rats and (because I'm so nosy!) his early dating life. Read/watch: amyhoggart.substack.com/p/george-mon...

Illustration I did for @theguardian.com a couple of months ago to accompany @georgemonbiot.bsky.social column on the opaque thinktanks that still have influence in Downing Street. George's piece here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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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...

getting the chance to speak with the wonderful @georgemonbiot.bsky.social has been one of the highlights of my year. I hope you enjoy this episode!

Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected. MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative. If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it. Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢

Absolutely this, George. It's the same old argument from people who don't actually know the facts but parrot the words because they heard someone else say them who sounded convincing.

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.

Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.

Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls. www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

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?

Here's the discussion we had today on Politics Live. It certainly kicked off! share.google/WmsPSCSD9xyO...

As always, accuracy is critical. What I said was: "In some respects this government under Keir Starmer looks more Tory than the Tories". I had just spelt out exactly which respects I meant: its anti-protest laws and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

I'll be on Politics Live from 1115 today, on BBC 2. Do tune in if you can. Usual mayhem expected.

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...

Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

We have a great line-up for this event on Friday. Do please come if you're in the area. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-for-r...

I’m old enough to remember when the BBC used old footage of Johnson at the cenotaph, to cover the fact that he was hung over and looked like a burst mattress on a tip. The DG didn’t resign though

At a certain level of British society there is only one crime it's possible to commit: Failure to Sufficiently Launder and Glorify the Ruling Class

This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks

Yes. And this report documenting systematic institutionalised bias against Palestinians had no impact at all. cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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 …

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...

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history. We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...

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...

Astonishing video, worth watching in full.

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.🧵

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... 🧵

William Cobbett tends to be forgotten now, but was an influential and sympathetic observer of changing life on farms, and absolutely seethed against growing cities they were growing, sprawling, and also subtly changing everything 'this corrupt and all-devouring WEN' (1823) hugely anti-Semitic too

For anyone wondering how or why Pol Pot murdered 1/4 of Cambodia’s population, it was this. The Khmer Rouge categorised everyone as “New People” (city folk) and “Old People” (rural), and only the Old Peoples were true Khmer.

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. 🧵

Notable how R4Today have judt described him as a 'Radical candidate' framing social justice policies as some bizarre pursuit.

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.

Glad to have @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and Anthea Simmons from @westcountryvoices.bsky.social on the panel for this event. There are still some tickets left if you'd like to join us.

Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps: The right defends economic power. The left resists economic power.

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

Tomorrow night, 4th Nov 25 at 7pm, Bylines Network roundtable "Hope Against Hate". Have you registered? 👇 Don't miss the opportunity of having a live discussion with great guests! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nafeez.bsky.social @nicklowles.bsky.social @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social