Toby Veall
@tobi1.bsky.social
What the world cannot afford is to support the parasitic lifestyles of Gates and co with their obscene wealth.
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
What the world cannot afford is to support the parasitic lifestyles of Gates and co with their obscene wealth.
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Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
While agreeing in the round,
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
The History of Europe: Every Year
YouTube video by Cottereau
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
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"Just imagine if Palestine had razed the whole of Israel to the ground, killing 100,000s, injuring and traumatising literally millions – and the BBC made the return of 20 Palestinian captives their continuous, highest profile focus."
More here from Media Lens: medialens.substack.com/p/reversing-...
More here from Media Lens: medialens.substack.com/p/reversing-...
Reversing The Truth – The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ And British Complicity In Genocide
We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight.
medialens.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"Just imagine if Palestine had razed the whole of Israel to the ground, killing 100,000s, injuring and traumatising literally millions – and the BBC made the return of 20 Palestinian captives their continuous, highest profile focus."
More here from Media Lens: medialens.substack.com/p/reversing-...
More here from Media Lens: medialens.substack.com/p/reversing-...
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Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, recently invited me to discuss economics. There was a lot to talk about. youtu.be/a27AfFTOW3o?...
Are We Looking At The Economy All Wrong? | Richard Murphy | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, recently invited me to discuss economics. There was a lot to talk about. youtu.be/a27AfFTOW3o?...
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New study by Falkena et al. shows that most climate models
don’t capture the established key mechanism that can destabilize the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Those models that get it predict abrupt subpolar gyre changes in coming decades 😳.
@swinda.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
don’t capture the established key mechanism that can destabilize the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Those models that get it predict abrupt subpolar gyre changes in coming decades 😳.
@swinda.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
October 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
New study by Falkena et al. shows that most climate models
don’t capture the established key mechanism that can destabilize the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Those models that get it predict abrupt subpolar gyre changes in coming decades 😳.
@swinda.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
don’t capture the established key mechanism that can destabilize the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Those models that get it predict abrupt subpolar gyre changes in coming decades 😳.
@swinda.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
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We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"in essence, the expert community is doing the work of corporations like Exxon, maintaining the status quo at the expense of genuine progress."
Short comment on 'carbon trading' climateuncensored.com/what-role-fo...
Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.
Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.
What role for carbon trading? - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a senior civil servant who asked me to provide a short comment on the concept of emissions trading schemes in general, and on the
climateuncensored.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"in essence, the expert community is doing the work of corporations like Exxon, maintaining the status quo at the expense of genuine progress."
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
The Home Sec also chooses to ignore that police shooting innocent people is not very British.
The BBC and Home Secretary conveniently ignoring *why* anti-genocide protesters were out on the streets the same day as the Manchester attack:
Because Israel had just abducted hundreds of activists, including Britons, trying to break its illegal starvation-siege of Gaza.
Because Israel had just abducted hundreds of activists, including Britons, trying to break its illegal starvation-siege of Gaza.
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Home Sec also chooses to ignore that police shooting innocent people is not very British.
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📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency.
On 27 Nov, top experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.
An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.
Check if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
On 27 Nov, top experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.
An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.
Check if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats arising from the climate & nature crisis to an invite-only audience. Westminster Central Hall, 27 November. Has your MP confirmed yet?
www.nebriefing.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency.
On 27 Nov, top experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.
An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.
Check if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
On 27 Nov, top experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.
An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.
Check if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
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I genuinely hope to be wrong, but I suspect @rory-stewart.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social are in the top fraction of 1% of hi-emitters & so cling to future tech salvations & the allure of weak but well crafted legislation. The challenges we face raise profound questions of "moral code".
September 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I genuinely hope to be wrong, but I suspect @rory-stewart.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social are in the top fraction of 1% of hi-emitters & so cling to future tech salvations & the allure of weak but well crafted legislation. The challenges we face raise profound questions of "moral code".
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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham says it’s time for the UK to stop being in hock to the bond markets. The City is in uproar, but who really calls the shots in Britain—the government we elect, or unelected financiers? youtu.be/E1oOQ0EOPhY?...
September 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Andy Burnham says it’s time for the UK to stop being in hock to the bond markets. The City is in uproar, but who really calls the shots in Britain—the government we elect, or unelected financiers? youtu.be/E1oOQ0EOPhY?...
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
They are utterly shameless, they think they have achieved this degree of wealth through their own brilliance and that we are blessed to have them amongst us.
Europe’s richest man opposes wealth tax.
Estimated to have wealth of $169bn (£125bn), resents paying extra €1bn (£817m).
Would it make any material difference to his lifestyle?
How does anyone get this rich without squeezing labour, customers?
Wealth opens doors to unaccountable political power.
Estimated to have wealth of $169bn (£125bn), resents paying extra €1bn (£817m).
Would it make any material difference to his lifestyle?
How does anyone get this rich without squeezing labour, customers?
Wealth opens doors to unaccountable political power.
Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man
LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
They are utterly shameless, they think they have achieved this degree of wealth through their own brilliance and that we are blessed to have them amongst us.
The far right are silently capturing the media landscape.
Malignant normality around us: when my mum switches on her Samsung TV, this is the default screen. Far-right propaganda channel GB News perpetually appears at #1 on the presented list of channels.
September 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The far right are silently capturing the media landscape.
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Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler.
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
September 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler.
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
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Here's the short speech I gave in Parliament Square on Wednesday.
youtu.be/81Dnt2shYdc?...
youtu.be/81Dnt2shYdc?...
George Monbiot DESTROYS Keir Starmer on Trump State Visit
YouTube video by Byline TV
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September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here's the short speech I gave in Parliament Square on Wednesday.
youtu.be/81Dnt2shYdc?...
youtu.be/81Dnt2shYdc?...
The Tech Facists arrive at a castle and pull up the drawbridge.
Oh look – it is the beginning of what @georgemonbiot.bsky.social calls an onanocracy – including one guy suing another for $15bn
for pointing out he’s a pervert, but all friends in power really.
for pointing out he’s a pervert, but all friends in power really.
Look who came with
September 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Tech Facists arrive at a castle and pull up the drawbridge.
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Fossil fuels are harmful in a million different ways, but the immediate impacts they have has been broadly understated
If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them
climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...
If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them
climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...
September 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Fossil fuels are harmful in a million different ways, but the immediate impacts they have has been broadly understated
If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them
climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...
If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them
climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...
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Another section from my #CriticalDecade presentation (see attached).
Full transcript at climateuncensored.com/talk-at-the-...
Full transcript at climateuncensored.com/talk-at-the-...
September 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Another section from my #CriticalDecade presentation (see attached).
Full transcript at climateuncensored.com/talk-at-the-...
Full transcript at climateuncensored.com/talk-at-the-...
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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This 👇
"Welcoming a potential war criminal to Downing Street is another demonstration of how Keir Starmer and the Labour government are implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.
September 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This 👇
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, Byline Times can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain”
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September 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, Byline Times can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain”
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...