Ungainly on landhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mrfj5dcgbc2aAlways this. "Protect our women and children from those people" is pure projection. The beast is the man in the mirror. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/24/most-people-arrested-during-henry-nowak-protests-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/24/most-people-arrested-during-henry-nowak-protests-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other24 Jul 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfj5dcgbc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mrep4leyk22bThe greatest global threat to both peace and a habitable planet is the government of the USA. It has been so for a long time, but Trump has nixed the deniability. We should stop treating it as an ally that has mysteriously gone astray and start treating it as a hazard to be avoided and contained.24 Jul 2026 06:13 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrep4leyk22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mrd2efnbts2cA barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/23/palestine-action-trial-lawyer-prosecution-criticised-rajiv-menon-kc23 Jul 2026 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrd2efnbts2chttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mrc56lkg3c2oThis week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/lobbyists-uk-environment-ministers-ecosystems-chicken-poultry-faming23 Jul 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrc56lkg3c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mrc4z325ws2cMajor climate impacts on crops in North America and Europe. Major shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and now, potentially, the Red Sea. Transit through the Panama Canal threatened by drought. It's time we started getting serious about #FoodSecurity.23 Jul 2026 05:43 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrc4z325ws2chttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mrapxobhdk2jGenuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/22/stephen-miller-marco-rubio-trump-speeches22 Jul 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrapxobhdk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mrajpvoycs2cI'm glad Andy Burnham is committed to Proportional Representation. But he shouldn't stop at this commendable 19th Century proposal. Many brilliant democratic innovations have been proposed since then, but none adopted. In many ways we're stuck in the era of quill pens and powdered wigs.22 Jul 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrajpvoycs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mr7revrc322eWhile this place is 100x better than the hellsite, there are still a few people who seem determined to spoil the experience. So here are my instant blocking criteria: - Insults or abuse - Performative idiocy - False accusations - Pointless conflict - Racism, sexism or other prejudices.22 Jul 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr7revrc322ehttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mr5cjdrvvk2zI strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/shabana-mahmood-immigrants-britain-history21 Jul 2026 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5cjdrvvk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mr5aeyohbc2tIt's a grim reflection of the media's priorities that there's been seldom a word about who the new Environment Secretary is (Angela Eagle, by the way, who is surely an improvement on the dismal Emma Reynolds). The post should be up there with Home, Foreign and Defence. It's central to our wellbeing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5aeyohbc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mr57ahbdok2qEveryone had better be nice to me, because the Monbiot Hex is working at last. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 06:40 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr57ahbdok2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mr34bkhymk2zApart from Blair, I can't think of a Labour leader who has done more than Starmer to create division and polarisation. Pandering to Reform on immigration, complicity in genocide, attacks on the right to protest ... Now he presents himself as a great healer. His speech was not "moving" but sickening.20 Jul 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr34bkhymk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mr336o4dfc2vComing over here, winning the World Cup ... [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2026 10:22 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr336o4dfc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mr2vh7pu3s2fThe Soil Matters podcast interviewed Professor Simon Jeffery and me about the Earth Rover Program and the rapid advances in soil science it enables. We explain why soil has been so hard to study, how our new approach is helping, and how it might transform farming. 🧵 https://soils.org.uk/soilmatters/#episode10 https://soils.org.uk/soilmatters/#episode10Since20 Jul 2026 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr2vh7pu3s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mqynqdilsk2nOne of my earnest hopes is that Emma Reynolds, the former City lobbyist whom Starmer appointed as yet another craven, spineless and utterly useless Environment Secretary, will be out of a job tomorrow. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/18/poultry-sector-growth-plan-uk-national-food-security-supply-chain https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/18/poultry-sector-growth-plan-uk-national-food-security-supply-chain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other19 Jul 2026 11:16 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqynqdilsk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mquhx3rylk2uExcellent and essential letters here, laying to rest some pervasive myths about Carbon Capture and Storage, and raising further concerns about both the astonishing financial outlay and the vast climate damage it will cause. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquhx3rylk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mqr6owcvzk2eThis is why we can't have rich ecosystems and safe food. The farm lobby threatens us all. https://www.grilled.media/inside-copa-cogeca-plot-to-kill-eu-green-deal/16 Jul 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqr6owcvzk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mqqoys3gwk2rThere's no avoiding the conclusion, however much dust the UK government throws into the air. By providing weapons, rhetorical and diplomatic support to the Israeli government as it has committed genocide in #Gaza, Keir Starmer and his ministers *are* complicit in this great crime.16 Jul 2026 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqqoys3gwk2r