Corporate lobbyists are demanding a ban on protest – and getting it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd February 2024 Why are peaceful protesters treated like terrorists, while actual terrorists (especially on the far right, and especially in the US) often remain unmolested by the law? Why, in the UK, can you now […]
law & order
The government, under its own new definition, is an extremist organisation. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th November 2023 As good citizens, we are told, we should report extremism to the authorities. It hasn’t always been clear what this term means, so we should be grateful to Michael Gove’s levelling up department, which […]
Welcome to Wiener Wednesday! This week’s recipe comes from an October 1975 issue of Seventeen Magazine. IT’S DOG EAT DOG! Partytime or anytime, serve America’s under-the-umbrella favorite in an irresistible round-about way: Slash frankfurters along one side, broil, and place on a hamburger bun. Fill the center with taste-tempting delights like the ones shownContinue reading Wiener Wednesday: The Frank Sinatra (1975)
Corporations have found a way to punish people for disagreeing with them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29th June 2023 Punishment without trial: this is the latest weapon in the war against dissent. Apparently, it’s not enough for the police to be given powers to shut down any protest they choose. It’s not […]
No one seeks to justify the indefinite imprisonment of people who should have been released years ago. Yet it continues. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th May 2023 There are those of us who exist in a more or less free society. And there are those who, while also living within the borders […]
Using entirely bogus pretexts, the police are deploying oppressive new laws to shut down peaceful protest. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th May 2023 The more unequal a society becomes, the more oppressive its laws must be. This, I think, explains new acts that would not be out of place in a police […]
Environmental protesters are forbidden to explain their motivations to juries, making a mockery of justice. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd February 2023 To tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”: this is the oath defendants in an English court must take. But when David Nixon sought to do […]