The 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?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me trying to explain how the shit hit the fan in Germany this week without despairing. My attempt to end on a lighter note however was eventually undermined by @sturdyalex.bsky.social and rightly so.
It was an interesting chat in spite of everything.
Tx for having me.

Very, very worrying.

The audience is the problem...isn't it?'

James O'Brien says consumers of 'reckless driving' content are "displaying an appetite that criminals are feeding".

“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians.

Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.”

Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.

"The Establishment" (noun): elitist journalists who outrageously expose the leader of a political party for doing what all ordinary, honest working people do: cheating, grifting and hiding millions of pounds in donations from fraudsters and overseas billionaires.

If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.

History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right.
1. Deal with it quickly and decisively.
2. Let it win.
The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.

The worst possible way to honour the memory of Henry Nowak, victim of a horrible murder and a grave misjudgement by the police, is to do what Nigel Farage appears to want: turn it into an excuse for racial conflict.

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

If only they would do this in Germany. Vaping isn't even considered smoking in Germany. Smoking and vaping needs far more attention by the government to reduce especially amongst the under 20s!

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"

That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

About time you clean your planes @ryanairofficial.bsky.social

“The world’s richest man has decided that the world’s richest country shouldn't help some of the world’s poorest people”