As one whistleblower tells me, a vital public health service is being bungled by private contractors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George MonbiotI hope you’re sitting down, because this week’s column should make you very, very angry.
It shows how professional clinicians employed by the NHS in crucial test and trace jobs have been secretly replaced by teenaged call centre workers employed by Serco
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Environmental campaigner Tony Whitehead considers the extent to which Dartmoor’s nature is protected, and the shocking condition of its protected sites. On 28 September Boris Johnson committed to protecting 30 per cent of the UK’s land by 2030. A...
The long read: In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life?
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George MonbiotA powerful, tragic and shocking article by @martinchulov about the destruction of a good man, partly by state-sponsored disinformation, conspiracy theorists and trolls.
A lot of it happened on Twitter.
It had terrible, real-world consequences.
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A previously unseen letter from a senior OPCW figure undermines allegations that the organisation fabricated evidence about a chemical attack on Syrian civilians.
From straightforward second referendum groups such as Led by Donkeys to outrageously transparent Tory entities like Working 4 UK, SOLOMON HUGHES documents the range ‘non-party campaigners’ who invested in Corbynism’s failure
Show Who Cares Wins with Lily Cole, Ep Is more better? With George Monbiot, Andrew McAfee, Aja Barber, John Sauven, Lisa Jackson and Merlin Sheldrake - 21 Oct 2020
George MonbiotHere you can see which MPs voted against free school meals, and how much they have each received from the public kitty in expenses. I hope you're sitting down.
Sterling work by @jacobHeppleston
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When writer, journalist and environmental campaigner, George Monbiot, returned to FarmED to learn more about sustainable food production, we took...
George MonbiotI was grilled by some very smart young people in and around farming. It was a really interesting discussion. You can listen to it here
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The Government is keeping billions of pounds worth of COVID-19 contracts hidden from view. We know that the Department of Health and Social Care has awarded more than £11billion worth of contracts to private companies....