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Wen<p>Labour’s continuous assault on an already nature depleted country. And Starmer is proud of it.</p><p>So who has the government listened to? Astonishingly, Keir Starmer has told us. His attack on environmental regulation, he states, has been inspired by “my conversations with leading CEOs”.</p><p>Future generations will be proud of us and the contribution made the Red Tories!</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/labour-nature-england-ecosystems-planning-bill-keir-starmer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/apr/24/labour-nature-england-ecosystems-planning-bill-keir-starmer</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UkPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/depletion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>depletion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NatureEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NatureEngland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a></p>
Greenpete<p>"Commerce is not capitalism"</p><p>"You cannot imagine the end of capitalism if you don’t know what capitalism is!"</p><p>But when you do, the end of it, and a fairer world looks much more possible...</p><p><a href="https://lor.sh/tags/george" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>george</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.monbiot.com/2025/04/02/a-new-world/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">monbiot.com/2025/04/02/a-new-w</span><span class="invisible">orld/</span></a></p>
Ivi Choc<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FYI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FYI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/georgemonbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgemonbiot</span></a></p><p>George Monbiot on the ongoing system breakdown.</p><p>(A lot of aspects he is getting, but he is still not there. He still wants to keep the fundaments. If you have any kind of hierarchy and "politics" in a system, you have it fundamentally wrong. The only systems sustainable for ALL people for over 10.000 years in the past, we dug up so far, were ones without any hierarchy, based on some sort of mutual cooperation.)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLNATrU6JQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=vVLNATrU6JQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/@steevc" class="u-url mention">@<span>steevc</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> is a good speaker as well as writer. Always succinct and and makes his points clearly, explaining terminology along the way…doesn’t baffle or assume prior knowledge.</p><p>This is a good recorded event I found of him explaining the premise of the book: </p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPDnnRvtQg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPDnnRv</span><span class="invisible">tQg</span></a></p>
Angus Davison<p>By failing to repeal draconian anti-protest laws Labour in the UK is priming the country for authoritarianism, by normalising a far right legal framework. Opinion by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>georgemonbiot.bsky.social</span></a></span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2025/feb/22/keir-starmer-labour-illiberal-laws-hard-right-authoritarians" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global/comment</span><span class="invisible">isfree/2025/feb/22/keir-starmer-labour-illiberal-laws-hard-right-authoritarians</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/GeorgeMonbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeMonbiot</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>starmer</span></a></p>
CleoMatra<p>Geweldige analyse van George Monbiot.<br>Oligarchen, democratieën, en revoluties.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE2B2zNi7hb/?igsh=MXRwbjlmYTh4amc2cA==" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/reel/DE2B2zNi7hb</span><span class="invisible">/?igsh=MXRwbjlmYTh4amc2cA==</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl" class="u-url mention">@<span>Remittancegirl</span></a></span> </p><p>Also In this context: </p><p>“The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison review – neoliberalism’s ascent: An incisive analysis of how the controversial ideology has permeated modern life”</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/29/the-invisible-doctrine-by-george-monbiot-and-peter-hutchison-review-neoliberalisms-ascent?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/article/</span><span class="invisible">2024/may/29/the-invisible-doctrine-by-george-monbiot-and-peter-hutchison-review-neoliberalisms-ascent?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeoLiberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InvisibleDoctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InvisibleDoctrine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inequality</span></a></p>
Neil Lynch<p>C/H, air con, fast fashion, collectible crap, cake etc impacting on nature. It really is quite phony / POINTLESS to just protest about meat production and oil. Humans fucking up nature is far bigger than that. <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/WEKNOWALLTHIS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WEKNOWALLTHIS</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/XR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XR</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Greenpeace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenpeace</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Monbiot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monbiot</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Thunberg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thunberg</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/TELLTHEWHOLETRUTH" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TELLTHEWHOLETRUTH</a></p>
fradie 💚☕🥁💻 Merz darf nicht Kanzler beiben!<p>Wir beobachten gebannt die Clowns, die uns ermutigen, die Wut, die eigentlich Milliardären vorbehalten sein sollte, auf <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Einwanderer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Einwanderer</a>, <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Frauen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frauen</a>, <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Juden" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Juden</a>, <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Muslime" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Muslime</a>, People of Color <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/PoC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoC</a> und andere imaginäre Feinde und die üblichen Sündenböcke zu richten.“ <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/Monbiot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monbiot</a><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2ldzwbjsaqplmdhrbgddatpv/post/3lcdgzc6ih22c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2ldzwbjsaqplmdhrbgddatpv/post/3lcdgzc6ih22c</a></p>
COPS campaign<p>"Even if you think you’ve heard it all, some of the details in this column will take your breath away... This society lauded a police officer who lied &amp; cheated and ruined lives."</p><p>George Monbiot on Bob Lambert &amp; the scandal of Britain's political secret police</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/28/police-officer-spy-cop-bob-lambert-women-official-inquiry" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/nov/28/police-officer-spy-cop-bob-lambert-women-official-inquiry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boblambert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boblambert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/secretpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secretpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercover</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/georgemonbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgemonbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policecorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policecorruption</span></a></p>
Noam Bergman<p>"<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> has been captured by carbon capture"</p><p>"The £3.9bn Rachel Reeves announced last week for carbon capture and storage is a down payment on a £21.7bn scam that will fuel climate chaos, says George <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCS</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CCUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCUS</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://goodlawproject.org/labour-captured-by-carbon-capture/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">goodlawproject.org/labour-capt</span><span class="invisible">ured-by-carbon-capture/</span></a></p>
David Tuller<p>By David Tuller, DrPH</p><p><em><strong>October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to the university (tax-deductible for US taxpayers)&nbsp;<a href="https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/43450" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a></strong>.</em></p><p>Last week, Guardian columnist George Monbiot wrote <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/maeve-bothby-oneill-me-chronic-fatigue-syndrome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">another scathing piece</a> about the failure of the UK health care system to address the plight of people diagnosed with ME/CFS. (Monbiot’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previous column on the issue</a>&nbsp;appeared in March; our interview about it is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC5i3vQ8vSs&amp;t=1504s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.) The new column was pegged to the case of 27-year-old Maeve Boothby O’Neill, whose death in 2021 from complications of severe disease has received extensive media coverage in the UK (if not, unfortunately, in the US).</p><p>But Monbiot’s main focus in this column was the sorry history of London’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Science Media Centre</a> in promoting egregiously flawed studies about the illness. The SMC, a PR agency masquerading as a purportedly neutral arbiter of scientific research, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/dec/09/highereducation.uk2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">been on Monbiot’s radar for decades</a>. Yesterday, Monbiot and I discussed some of the issues he addressed in the column, including what he has referred to as the <a href="https://www.monbiot.com/2024/10/23/how-bad-science-sticks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“cruel and bizarre cult”</a> that has controlled it since its inception. (Because of a time lag on the zoom call, in a couple of places we seem to be talking over each other.)</p> <p><a href="https://trialbyerror.org/2024/10/25/guardian-columnist-george-monbiot-on-the-bizarre-cult-at-the-london-based-science-media-centre/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trialbyerror.org/2024/10/25/guardian-columnist-george-monbiot-on-the-bizarre-cult-at-the-london-based-science-media-centre/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/guardian/" target="_blank">#Guardian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/monbiot/" target="_blank">#monbiot</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/science-media-centre/" target="_blank">#scienceMediaCentre</a></p>
David Tuller<p>By David Tuller, DrPH</p><p><em><strong>October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to the university (tax-deductible for US taxpayers)&nbsp;<a href="https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/43450" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a></strong>.</em></p><p>Last week, Guardian columnist George Monbiot wrote <a href="https://www.monbiot.com/2024/10/23/how-bad-science-sticks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">another scathing column</a> about the failure of the UK health care system to address the plight of people diagnosed with ME/CFS. (Monbiot’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previous column on the issue</a> appeared in March; our interview about it is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC5i3vQ8vSs&amp;t=1504s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.) The new column was pegged to the case of 27-year-old Maeve Boothby O’Neill, whose death in 2021 from complications of severe disease has received extensive media coverage in the UK (if not, unfortunately, in the US). But Monbiot also described at length the sorry history of London’s <a href="https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Science Media Centre</a>, a PR agency masquerading as a purportedly neutral arbiter of research, in disseminating fraudulent research in this domain.</p><p>To be clear, I use “fraudulent” in the sense of “deliberately deceptive.” I have never claimed that the PACE investigators or their fellow travelers have engaged in the crime of “fraud.” I’m not a lawyer, so that’s not my area of expertise. Rather, I have argued that their research strategies are designed to generate false reports of success and mislead the medical and patient communities. These studies are the research equivalent of a Potemkin village–constructed to look impressive but, in reality, offering nothing of substance, or less than nothing, behind the glittering façade.</p><p>In response to Monbiot’s column, the lead PACE investigators (Professors Trudie Chalder, Michael Sharpe, and Peter White) have once again emerged from their cave with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/22/a-dualistic-view-of-illness-doesnt-help-those-with-me-cfs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a letter</a> defending their honor and promoting their bogus notions. Yet time and science have left these self-important grandees in the dust. They remind me of those ancient Japanese soldiers on obscure islands who didn’t know that World War II was over. Like rotten meat, their theories stink, and the investigators themselves passed their sell-by date long ago. If the PACE trial hadn’t been so awful and caused so much damage and human suffering, their plight would just be sad and pathetic.</p><p>Here’s the headline to their letter: <em>“A dualistic view of illness doesn’t help those with ME/CFS.”</em> In other words, this unholy trinity is regurgitating the same tired accusation they have trotted out over and over again–that anyone who challenges their shoddy work has bought into whatever it is they are calling “dualism.”</p><p>Their routine bleating about “dualism” is a deflection. Per the descriptions of the interventions–cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy–the PACE trial was based on the premise that “deconditioning” and “unhelpful beliefs” alone were responsible for perpetuating the devastating physical symptoms characterizing ME/CFS. Refusing to acknowledge that physical symptoms might be caused by pathophysiological dysfunctions sure sounds like dualism to me. Pot, kettle, anyone?</p><p>I’m a public health guy, not a biologist or clinician. Early in public health training, students learn about what are called “the social determinants of health.” It goes without saying that someone’s physical and social environment dramatically impacts their health status. But to extrapolate this self-evident concept and insist that a devastating illness can be attributed solely to “deconditioning” and “unhelpful beliefs” about illness—as the PACE authors have claimed for decades—is absurd.</p><p>The three professors dutifully note that Boothby O’Neill’s death was “tragic and should have been avoided.” But avoided how? Do they think she chose to starve herself to death—even as she was begging for hospital personnel to provide artificial feeding options? Do they believe she would be alive today if only she’d pursued a course of CBT or GET? Do they think these interventions are likely to save the other young women currently suffering at the hands of the National Health Service?They offer no suggestions on what treatment she should have received. Instead, they blame Monbiot for drawing “generalizations” that they claim are “outdated.”</p><p>Given that post-exertional malaise is a defining characteristic of ME/CFS, pushing people to ramp up their activity level despite a resurgence of symptoms is contra-indicated. Nonetheless, these “experts” refuse to acknowledge the harm their approach has caused to untold numbers of patients over the last 30 years. It must be hard to be told, later in your career, that the science to which you’ve devoted so many years is not only incompetent but has also made many patients worse. From that perspective, their reluctance to accept reality is understandable. But it is also unconscionable. In any event, their unwillingness to take responsibility for their errors and the indisputable flaws in their research doesn’t change the facts.</p><p>They write that “no relevant paper has been withdrawn and many systematic reviews and meta-analyses have found the approaches to be beneficial.” That statement presumes that the authors of these systematic reviews and editors of the relevant journals are honest brokers conducting honest research. That is not the case. Everyone involved is part of an insular cabal whose members praise and peer-review each others’ work and publish in journals with editorial boards populated by their cronies. This body of research is not science. It’s propaganda. </p><p><a href="https://trialbyerror.org/2024/10/24/pace-authors-respond-to-monbiot-column-with-tired-arguments/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trialbyerror.org/2024/10/24/pace-authors-respond-to-monbiot-column-with-tired-arguments/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/guardian/" target="_blank">#Guardian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/michael-sharpe/" target="_blank">#MichaelSharpe</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/monbiot/" target="_blank">#monbiot</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/pace/" target="_blank">#PACE</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/peter-white/" target="_blank">#PeterWhite</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/trudie-chalder/" target="_blank">#TrudieChalder</a></p>
David Tuller<p>By David Tuller, DrPH</p><p><em><strong>October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to the university (tax-deductible for US taxpayers)&nbsp;<a href="https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/43450" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a></strong>.</em></p><p>English actress <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3262524/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jennie Jacques</a> is known for her roles in&nbsp;the BBC’s <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Romantics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Desperate Romantics</a></em>, a 2009 series about the Pre-Raphaelites, a police procedural called <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPC_56" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WPC 56</a></em>, which ran from 2013 to 2014, and&nbsp;<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(2013_TV_series)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vikings</a></em>, a History Channel offering from 2015 to 2019. In 2021, she discussed having developed ME/CFS in <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/jennie-jacques-on-living-with-me-i-am-a-shadow-of-my-former-self-physically-z7plw7nnx?region=ie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a profile that appeared in <em>The Times</em></a>, in which she reported being “a shadow of my former self physically.” (The author of the article, Sean O’Neill, is the father of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, whose death of complications from ME/CFS has been widely covered in the British media.) </p><p>Although Jacques’ acting career has since been on hold, she has dedicated herself to ME/CFS advocacy. In particular, she has posted a series of interviews on her youtube channel. Last week, she hosted Guardian columnist George Monbiot and me to discuss the incredible mess created by the CBT/GET ideological brigades with their decades of disastrous and sometimes fraudulent research. (As I have repeatedly explained, I am not accusing anyone of “fraud” in the legal sense. I’m not a lawyer and so I have no public opinion to share on such matters. As a writer, however, I am using “fraudulent” in its meaning of “deceptive” or “misleading”–the research equivalent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a Potemkin village</a>.)</p><p>I was really pleased to be asked to participate in this conversation. We covered a lot of territory. And yes, I did manage to point out that this cabal of investigators has engaged for decades in one big <a href="https://uk.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=circle%20jerk%20meaning&amp;hspart=fc&amp;hsimp=yhs-90&amp;type=fc_AA30D90E577_s69_g_e_d_n4_c999&amp;param1=7&amp;param2=eJwtjtFqwzAMRX9Fjy3UrhTbMW7fxtIPGHtaKcVLvcTEqUOSsrGvnzyKBPfq6ArUxdv5eHl7JUTtyJ13lzvPmrVwlpbFubKIE1tCJytjJNXcxLQLmXEMbB%2Be3Zh%2FY0p%2BbyTCZvRtvK956Y%2FAGhIwgLzADxBeyVztFvw0pfAdPoe47o2yUtWwGfp1TDtIcQjQhXbIW2j7OY9hT5WTWAoW%2F%2BXn%2BDwp3y3x%2BfFjCfO%2FN0TKOEKhNZEgak7iBVUt8KSrprFMDZZ8W8IVVlqgFWTf0R4MHVBJS%2BrjD1dmU6w%3D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“circle jerk.”</a> (For those unfamiliar with the figurative meaning of this term, it is, according to <a href="https://virology.ws/?page_id=19624" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this slang dictionary</a>, a “group of people who are ‘getting themselves off’ in the&nbsp;echo chamber of their own opinions or activities.) </p><p>Here’s the interview. </p> <p><a href="https://trialbyerror.org/2024/10/21/actress-jennie-jacques-interviews-guardian-columnist-george-monbiot-and-me-about-the-cbt-get-ideological-brigades-and-more/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trialbyerror.org/2024/10/21/actress-jennie-jacques-interviews-guardian-columnist-george-monbiot-and-me-about-the-cbt-get-ideological-brigades-and-more/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/biopsychosocial/" target="_blank">#biopsychosocial</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/monbiot/" target="_blank">#monbiot</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://trialbyerror.org/tag/pace/" target="_blank">#PACE</a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@PoliceStateUK" class="u-url mention">@<span>PoliceStateUK</span></a></span> </p><p>“<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a> will cease to exist only when it ceases to be useful to powerful people. It doesn’t matter how many times it fails, materially, intellectually or morally. While it remains a useful tool for solving the problem of democracy, it will continue to be deployed. Remember, this is not about meeting the needs of society as a whole, [..]. It’s about meeting the needs of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>oligarchs</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corporations</span></a> and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ultrarich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ultrarich</span></a>.”</p><p>George <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.monbiot.com/2024/07/25/how-to-change-everything/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">monbiot.com/2024/07/25/how-to-</span><span class="invisible">change-everything/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Press</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Monbiot is right about the wickedness of capitalism. Yet he acts as its propagandist”</p><p>by Jonathan Cook on Substack </p><p>“Capitalism is irredeemably destructive, warns George Monbiot. So why is he shilling for the Guardian, when its role is to create bipartisan support for crushing the anti-capitalist, anti-war left?”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/monbiot-is-right-about-the-wickedness?r=27oltk&amp;utm_medium=ios" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/jonathan</span><span class="invisible">cook/p/monbiot-is-right-about-the-wickedness?r=27oltk&amp;utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeoLiberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeMarket</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rigging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rigging</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rentier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rentier</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Utilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Utilities</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monopolies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thatcher</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reagan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrilateralCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrilateralCommission</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Starmer</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>This <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> piece chimes with much of what I posted here last week about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JSO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JSO</span></a> and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sunflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sunflowers</span></a> soup protestors…but I didn’t know about the previous of the judge, Christopher Hehir. Violent rich men or those who that are police officers, who physically and sexually attack their victims get suspended sentences, while those who attempt to draw attention to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateBreakdown</span></a> are thrown in jail. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/prison-uk-justice-system-fossil-fuel-industry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/oct/01/prison-uk-justice-system-fossil-fuel-industry</span></a></p>
HelloMstdn<p>A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them killed?<br />George Monbiot</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/27/bluefin-tuna-uk-waters-fishing-industry-government" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/sep/27/bluefin-tuna-uk-waters-fishing-industry-government</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fisheries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fisheries</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeorgeMonbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeorgeMonbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tuna</span></a></p>
Ivi Choc<p>The Guardian: Heat Shock</p><p>"...as extreme heat raged across the southern United States this summer, the governors of Florida and Texas struck down heat protections for outdoor workers. <br>...<br>That the homes and offices through which they glide and the food they eat are grown and harvested by people working in the outlands, ... is no concern of theirs: however many die, there will always be more." George Monbiot</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateBreakdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Recently I wrote about why I kinda like George Monbiot's work when he describes the problem of capitalism and climate crisis, but also think he's fucking delusional if he believes trying to tax rich people is gonna be enough to get us out of the ecological nightmare we're facing down because of rich people and capitalism:</p><p><a href="https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2024/08/03/nina-bytes-no-half-measures/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ninaillingworth.com/2024/08/03</span><span class="invisible">/nina-bytes-no-half-measures/</span></a></p><p>Nina-Bytes: No Half Measures</p><p>"Look, there’s nothing at all wrong with Monbiot’s argument that billionaire oligarchs should bear a greater taxation burden than they do now because it’s going to cost a lot of money for the human species to solve the problems primarily created by the capitalist activities of, you guessed it, billionaire oligarchs. It’s just that when George’s article goes on to explain that those very same oligarchs operate with impunity on a global scale, have enough money to literally buy the governments of our nation states, and clearly have no intention of ceasing to push our species right off the ecological cliff for profit, it becomes incredibly obvious that not only will they never agree to pay such a tax, but even if they did it wouldn’t do enough to address the fatal power imbalances he’s talking about here; facts that Monbiot himself more or less concedes in this very article."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaxTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a></p>
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