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George Joshua Richard Monbiot (/ ˈ m ɒ n b i oʊ / MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British journalist, author, and environmental and political activist. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and has written several books. Monbiot grew up in Oxfordshire and studied zoology at the University of Oxford.
Their first campaign was the occupation of the disused Wisley Airfield in Surrey by 400 people in 1995, from which there was a live broadcast on the BBC's Newsnight programme. [2] Nearby St. George's Hill is symbolically significant as the site of a 1649 protest, when the Diggers planted vegetables on the common land there.
Writing in The Guardian, George Monbiot criticised Plummer and Holland's sentences and stated that Hehir had given suspended sentences to violent criminals, rapists, and paedophiles, and that Huw Edwards and racist protesters in the 2024 United Kingdom riots had also been given suspended sentences. [19]
Double Down News (DDN) is a British alternative media outlet founded in 2017 by Yannis Mendez. [1] Funded through Patreon , it produces films and interviews from a left-wing perspective . [ 2 ] Double Down News' contributors have included Peter Oborne , George Monbiot , [ 3 ] Guz Khan , [ 4 ] Nabil Abdul Rashid [ 5 ] and David Graeber . [ 6 ]
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No Man's Land was praised by diverse sources, from Niall Ferguson in the Daily Mail, Oliver Tickell in the Daily Telegraph and in Africa Analysis, where it was described as 'An inquiring book by a sensitive man'. [1]
The book is an investigation into the expulsion of peasants from their homes and their forced relocation to the Amazon.Military police attempt to kill Monbiot as he exposes a vast military project opening up the area to logging and deforestation.
One of the people involved in setting up the charity was Guardian journalist and author George Monbiot who published Feral, a book about rewilding, in 2013. [5] Rewilding Britain has called for the reintroduction of predators such as lynx and wolves which were hunted to extinction in Britain centuries ago. [6]