Ungainly on landhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mvi6iuoxws2hI'm not a religious person, but if there were such a thing as the Antichrist, he would do what Trump does every day. Destroying our beautiful planet and the lives of its people for the sake of A. profit and B. a vengeful urge to destroy what other people love. So yes, demonic is the right word. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvi6iuoxws2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mvfodv4ue22sThere's only one solution to the danger of an AI-triggered nuclear war: decommission all nuclear weapons everywhere. On paper, the major powers are signed up to this objective. Now they need to do something about it.13 Sep 2026 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfodv4ue22shttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mvfcqfviw22yThe answer to our political funding crisis is simple and obvious. It would send our politics in the opposite direction to its current, disastrous trajectory. So why won't Labour MPs pick it up? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/30/political-donations-poison-democracy-antidote-reform-uk https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/30/political-donations-poison-democracy-antidote-reform-uk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other13 Sep 2026 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfcqfviw22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mvdmcv4y3c2yWhat kind of mindset sees such wonders - the return of our bluefin tuna - and thinks "let's catch them for 'sport'" or "let's kill them and sell their flesh". It's not only monstrous philistinism, but also idiot economics. Many would pay well to witness this wonder. Extractivism is our enemy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Sep 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdmcv4y3c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mvdjltxv5k2pWhat's happening here is that as the garfish flee from the bluefin tuna hunting them, they run into the seals waiting in the wings, who drive them into the rocks (right under our feet). 1/312 Sep 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdjltxv5k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mva2qkbkrs2y“If the UK develops additional oil and gas production, that does not mean an equivalent quantity of production elsewhere automatically stops. It adds additional fossil-fuel supply to an international market." Why is this point so hard for so many to grasp? https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/11 Sep 2026 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mva2qkbkrs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mva24lyp3c2uThere were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done.11 Sep 2026 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mva24lyp3c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mv5u6qihic2cThe question that keeps occurring to me is this: If a group of people had taken office with the deliberate intention of destroying the global standing, democratic claims, credibility and power of the United States, what would they do differently? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62kzr1jg0jo10 Sep 2026 10:36 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5u6qihic2chttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mv5hiqq2zs2aThis week's column is about the Starmer-like self-destruction of the impending decision to approve new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. It might appease certain lobby groups, but it sabotages Burnham's own project and drives voters away. Utter madness. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/andy-burnham-north-sea-oil-plans-labour-climate-drilling-trump-reform10 Sep 2026 06:49 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5hiqq2zs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mv42nmfxz22j“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster09 Sep 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv42nmfxz22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mv3zerpng22jPerhaps, during his private education, fake bloke Daniel Thomas read PG Wodehouse's Code of the Woosters and thought "that Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts sounds like a spiffing fellow, and just the chap I want to be when I grow up." And there they are, black shorts and all. A dream come true. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3zerpng22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3mv2xb7tqws2pThe UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.09 Sep 2026 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2xb7tqws2phttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3muwebshcok2dLooking forward to reading The Nuance Drought by Natasha Devon, which is out on Thursday. She's a force for good. It's about how living in a world of binary choices and polarising narratives affects communities, society, our physical and mental health. Crucial stuff. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-nuance-drought-reclaiming-truth-and-complexity-in-a-polarised-world-natasha-devon/7883211de911951207 Sep 2026 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwebshcok2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3muvvavazl224If the police & security services didn't see this coming, it was a massive intelligence failure. If they did, but still gave the impression of being caught on the hop, it's something worse. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Sep 2026 06:34 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvvavazl224https://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3muvtd4kpus2580 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.07 Sep 2026 05:59 +0000at://did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvtd4kpus25