The Benefits Claimants the Government Loves
March 5, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Uncapped, almost unconditional, the vast sums of public money we give to farmers buy only destruction, writes George Monbiot.
Tag Archive: Domestic (UK)
Bread and Circuses in a Digital Age
February 27, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Bread and circuses have always been a central aspect of ruling class hegemony and a means of keeping the masses in a soporific state
How we ended up paying farmers to flood our homes
February 19, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts This government let the farming lobby rip up the rulebook on soil protection - and now we are suffering the consequences, writes George Monbiot.
Terrorism or Heroism?
February 17, 2014 6:39 pm Leave your thoughts The International Brigades were hailed for bravery. But British citizens who fight in Syria are damned. If only they did it for the money, writes George Monbiot.
Did an undercover cop help organise a major riot?
February 4, 2014 8:10 am Leave your thoughts The wrongly convicted activist John Jordan claims the Met helped plan serious civil disorder. An independent public inquiry is now vital, writes George Monbiot.
Why I’ll be rewarding the latest attempt to make a citizen’s arrest on Tony Blair
January 22, 2014 8:46 am Leave your thoughts London barman Twiggy Garcia could be in line for a reward from George Monbiot's Arrest Blair website after his crack at bringing the former prime minister to justice for alleged war crimes.
Fighting FGM, Human Trafficking in Manchester, UK
January 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On 18/1/2014, around two hundred people gathered in Manchester for a fundraising benefit to aid the cause of teenage asylum seeker, Olayinka, who faces the risk of Female Genital Mutilation, if forcibly returned to Nigeria
Beware the bulldog mindset
January 11, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A piece of political poetry written by John Gohorry
Not Michael Gove’s Misbegotten Shambles
January 11, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Michael Gove is a neoconservative member of Denis MacShane's Henry Jackson Society, and thus also an admirer of Tony Blair and of George W Bush, neither of whom would have got any of the jokes in Blackadder
At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything
January 8, 2014 1:22 pm Leave your thoughts Protesters, buskers, preachers, the young: all could end up with 'ipnas'. Of course, if you're rich, you have nothing to fear, writes George Monbiot.