I didn't mean to turn this into a short thread, but once I started ranting ...
So here it is, on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...

That‘s the spirit.

🚨BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures!

The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.

Let’s keep going!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Poster for the How to Find Your Purpose talk, showing my ugly mug and Rutger's more pleasing visage.

On January 14, I'll be interviewing the extraordinary @rutgerbregman.com in London. Tickets will go fast, so get yours while you can. howtoacademy.com/events/rutge...

Over this weekend, we have pushed the @calaisappeal.bsky.social fundraiser to almost £10k!! 🥹🥹

Let’s give it a really big push this week🙏

I feel sure we can raise more than the far right did to send over their thugs to harass people ❤️💪

www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Less than 1000 signatures to go

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... Defend and Protect Democracy Everybody! Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy #BorisTrumpPutinFarageSunakTrussMayCameronBadenochEtAl 95,377 signatures so far 29 November 2025 ... 100,000 needed folks!

How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

TIME FOR REAL CHANGE: democracy and climate justice A live conversation about our shared future, with insights from distinguished speakers and activists.

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...

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A warning from history Part Two: Oradour-sur-Glane To see what a future run by right-wing populists might feel like, go to Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges, look at the ruins, and learn its dreadful story

To see what a future run by right-wing populists might feel like, go to Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges, look at the ruins, and learn its dreadful story

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

Foreign billionaires circumvent laws and pump millions into British politics.

Unincorporated associations, shell companies, companies controlled from abroad used.

The aim: produce govts subservient to corporations and the rich.

End corruption. Give democracy a chance. Ban all political donations.

‎Buy European ‎Buy European is an initiative to help consumers make informed choices about the products they purchase. By identifying products made in Europe or by European companies, we aim to support local econom...

Denmark’s biggest supermarket Salling has introduced a system to highlight European products, making it easier for customers to avoid US goods.

However, you don't need to be Danish. There’s an app called “buy European” on the AppStore.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/buy-european/id6742723534

Adorn yourself with the classic Blue Note look with our new Album Cover Series t-shirts featuring some of Reid Miles' most iconic album cover designs! Available now exclusively on the Blue Note Store: store.bluenote.com/collections/...

UK users - If you do nothing else this morning please sign + share

Explain the Big Ugly budget bill to me like I’m five…

Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it.
Share it with family and friends.
#VoteNo

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland | Fighting Dirty In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals po...

Here's the Open Statement on sludge spreading launched by us at Fighting Dirty, and signed by many leading figures. The water companies are using farmland as a dump for hazardous chemicals. They mislead farmers, poison the land and threaten our health. It must stop. fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.

Water Follies

In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since.

Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030.

Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

The fires are so extensive across Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Ontario currently that there are not enough air crafts to rescue remote Native Canadians.

I am sending an SOS to every nation to help save the lives of people who are going to burn alive. Literally.

Canada needs evacuation assistance.

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

I asked a BBC spokesperson to set out any examples of the corporation drawing up specific plans to secure the support of voters for other political parties in the UK, but they were unable to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe".

A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

George & I are thrilled to see the #1 bestselling "The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism" being released in the UK in paperback.

And look for the film - out on the festival circuit now!

BOOK: theinvisibledoctrine.com/the-book
FILM: theinvisibledoctrine.com

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Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

With bills having gone up, it’s time to take energy back into public ownership The obscene profits of the energy industry show the sector is broken

Privatisation Racket.

20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24.

Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%.

They get subsidies too.

More in the linked article.