#Monbiot on the imminent danger of a collapse of the global food system:

#Policy "across most of the world appears to consist of allowing “the market” (namely a few huge global corporations) to decide what happens next. There’s another way of putting it. Our governments are leaving a group of ruthless speculators to play dice with our lives"

#food #USIsrael #Iran #consolidation
#collapse #foodsecurity #plantbased

@EUCommission
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran

A good summary by #Monbiot - wanting to have our cake and eat it, the age old story.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/iran-greed-oil-capitalism-regimes

#Renewables #War #NetZero #EnergyIndependence #Iran #Israel #USA #Greed #ShortSight

A pertinent comment in these days of rising energy costs. And the costs of mitigation is just going to rise the longer we delay.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/uk-energy-prices-soaring-war-iran-fossil-fuel-north-sea

#Fuel #Inflation #Economy #ClimateChange #Monbiot

A good article by Monbiot.

So we have Mahmoud (and treat of the motley crew), Farage and the Tabloids on one side….

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/shabana-mahmood-immigrants-britain-history

“Of course, it shouldn’t have been left to advertisers. Then and now, it’s the government that needs to confront the lies in the media. Instead, it endorses them and grovels to the oligarchs.”

Fat chance

#Monbiot #Labour #Mahmoud #Farage #Prejudice #Racism #UKPol #HurrahTheBlackShirts

Don’t panic the Horses

The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised.

It might make you ask them hard questions about their support and subsidy for fossil fuel companies and chemical manufacturers.

One might almost think they expect to be dead before the rest of us seek to blame them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security

#environment #climateChange ##maladminisration #UkPol #Monbiot

How small do you have to be in the trouser department to need to subject an animal to prolonged torture to 'prove' your masculinity?

Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/bluefin-tuna-fishing-contest-environment

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Monbiot #GeorgeMonbiot #Tuna #BluefinTuna #BluefinTunaUK #AnimalRights #UK

> You could call these jokes, if you think killing people is funny. Or you could call them thought experiments. Liddle suggested as much in his column: “I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way.” This “humour” permits obscene ideas to seep into the range of the possible.
> Academic researchers see the use of jokes to break taboos and reduce the thresholds of hate speech as a form of “strategic mainstreaming”. Far-right influencers.. desensitise...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer

#StartsAsAJoke #RightWingJokes #Monbiot #GeorgeMonbiot

How does the #right tear down #ProgressiveSocieties? It starts with a #joke
George #Monbiot

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other