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How a new film stitched me up like a kipper. By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 16th December 2025 This is a note about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, […]

Let’s focus our campaigning on things we can actually change. By George Monbiot, published as a BlueSky thread, 15th December 2025 Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, I’ll seek to lay it out simply. This note explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, […]

Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Gaza, fuel violence across Africa, and are falsely marketed as "conflict free."

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Trump appears poised to hand a golden egg to his longtime friends in the gambling industry.

Parliamentary ‘ping-pong’ occurs where the House of Lords fails to agree a piece of proposed legislation with the House of Commons. The Commons sends a bill it has approved to the Lords, who then amend it and send it back to the Commons. If the Commons rejects those amendments, the bill goes back to the […]

Colorado’s Attorney General joins Montana’s battle to use the Supreme Court’s own precedent to strip corporations of their personhood status.

By late summer 2025, it had all become too much for Bono. Something had changed. On 10 August — the morning that Israeli air strikes killed five Al Jazeera journalists and one freelance colleague in Gaza while extreme food deprivation was becoming widespread — the official U2 website was updated with four separate statements. Each […]

The UnOz’s Person of the Year award is one of the most anticipated events of the year, with defamation lawyers everywhere especially keen to see the list. 2025 has been a year of ups and downs, highs and lows and... Read More ›

Immigration is the only thing that will keep wealthy nations viable. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  12th december 2025 I know what “civilisational erasure” looks like: I’ve seen the graph. The European Commission published it in March. It’s a chart of total fertility rate: the average number of children born per woman. After […]

Google wined and dined lawmakers, the Epstein files yield new revelations, and more from The Lever this week.

Upstarts are taking on establishment politics, companies turn against Trump’s tariffs, underage workers get protections, and the phone company dials up pharma payback.

I'm pleased to announce that my new book Trans Lives: Social Realities across the Globe, will be released in early February 2026. Here is a link to the publisher's website: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=trans-lives--9781509572038
The title points to three themes. First, it's real lives that are at stake in current debates.

Researchers recorded the nocturnal insects sipping from the massive mammal’s ducts for the first time

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Polar bears in a warmer region of Greenland have shown some surprising genetic changes that may help them adapt

The post A Warming Arctic May Be Changing Polar Bears’ DNA appeared first on Nautilus.

Most of us overestimate how hooked we are

The post You’re Probably Not Addicted to Social Media appeared first on Nautilus.

Here's a sneak peek at the BBC's The War Between the Land and the Sea S01E03: "The Deep," with Kate Lethbridge Stewart feeling the pressure.

Mosasaur teeth discovered in North Dakota tell a surprising story

The post Fearsome Marine Predators Prowled Ancient Rivers, Too appeared first on Nautilus.

A new, non-invasive method to track amphibian hormones may reveal how the creatures weather rising threats in the wild

The post This Hole Punch-Sized Patch Could Help Save Frogs appeared first on Nautilus.

Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss updates this Christmas classic.

Charlie Brown and Linus lean on a brick wall. Snowflakes fall around them.

CHARLIE BROWN: I think there must be something wrong with me. I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.

LINUS: Charlie Brown, you are the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy is right. Maybe it is because of woke.

Charlie Brown sits in front of Lucy’s psychiatric booth.

CHARLIE BROWN: I feel depressed. I know I should be happy, but I’m not.

Test your knowledge of Trump’s AI executive order, Google’s secret lawmaker junket, and other issues that really matter.

The European Union is far stronger and more united than those inside the Trumpian echo chamber have fooled themselves into believing, argues Alexandra Hall Hall

A study notes marked lifespan increases in mammals that have been castrated or kept on contraception

The post Is the Secret to Long Life Freedom From Procreation? appeared first on Nautilus.

Universal Credit Jobs (UCJ) is the simplest credible version of a Job Guarantee that can be delivered in the United Kingdom