George Monbiot

Incredibly normal to be banging on the door of the Quakers repeatedly but allowing literal organisations such as Britain first to stalk homes of refugees and domestic violence survivors every weekend.

Totally normal is this government. Not worried at all.

Thanks Mark, and lovely to hear from you. 💚

“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Ah yes, killing them to save them. Surprised they aren't more grateful.

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I have lived under the imminent threat of being struck by lightning for 74 years but it hasn't happened yet.

For about 70 of those year I have been hoping that I would more than just imminently be a billionaire; same outcome.

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Thanks Jonathan. I love all your work.

Putin wants peace in Ukraine in the same way that Netanyahu wants peace in Palestine.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

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Great - many thanks

Thank you!

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

How did you do it, btw?

And here's the clip, thanks to James: bsky.app/profile/jame...

You're a star, thank you!

If we want a stable, secure, peaceful world, our governments should support democracy and self-determination everywhere, whether or not they agree with what the people want. Instead, for centuries, they have attacked democracy and self-rule, and we all live with the consequences.

We remain remarkably, dangerously ignorant of such histories, treating every event as if it came out of the blue. Again and again our governments wade in, with their bombs and missiles and special forces, and congratulate themselves on their strategic brilliance, only to create further crisis.

This is a classic example of Imperial Blowback. Foreign powers, seeking to shape the world to their demands, destabilise and overthrow popular governments, with results that - sometimes many decades later - come back to bite them in the nethers.

Thanks, very handy. But I can't even see a way to download and save a BBC programme. Me being thick about tech again.

This is what fuelled the revolutionary movement that overthrew him in 1979. Many of the revolutionaries cited the 1953 coup as their primary motivation. They wanted their country back. Instead they got another brutal, undemocratic regime, presided over by the ayatollahs.

Mosaddegh was a very popular prime minister, and his nationalisation policy was widely supported. But the loss of Britain's loot could not be tolerated. The US and UK reinstated the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, whose only means of sustaining his deeply unpopular regime was extreme cruelty and repression.

In 1953, at Churchill's instigation, and with his assistance, the CIA launched two coups against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the 2nd of which succeeded. Why? Because he rightly sought to nationalise Iran's oil supplies, which the UK was taking: seizing Iran's wealth.

Question Time - 2026: 05/03/2026 Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kettering. On the panel are Stephen Doughty, James Cleverly, Shashank Joshi, George Monbiot and Annabel Denham.

I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator.

The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be.

Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏

#bbcqt #IranWar

@shashj.bsky.social and @georgemonbiot.bsky.social will join Stephen Doughty MP Labour, James Cleverly MP Conservative and conservative commentator+columnist Annabel Denham on #BBC #QuestionTime tonight Join #bbcqt, at 9pm on #BBCiPlayer and #BBCSounds, 10.40pm #BBCOne Photos of guests.

@shashj.bsky.social and @georgemonbiot.bsky.social will join Stephen Doughty MP Labour, James Cleverly MP Conservative and conservative commentator+columnist Annabel Denham on #BBC #QuestionTime tonight Join #bbcqt, at 9pm on #BBCiPlayer and #BBCSounds, 10.40pm #BBCOne

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BBC One - Question Time, 2026, 05/03/2026 Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kettering.

I'm on Question Time tomorrow. Hold onto your seats! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"One should not give a poisoner medicine,
A conjurer fine apparatus, nor
A rifle to a melancholic bore."
WH Auden

Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.

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Easy mistake to make...