image of Grenfell Tower fire copied from 2017 post*
George Monbiot:
George Monbiot:
[Johnson’s Brexit freedoms bill] is the point of Brexit. The multimillionaires who funded the campaign to leave the European Union sought freedom from the decencies they owe to other people, freedom from the restraint that defines civic life. Our country has been torn apart in the civil war within capitalism: between the businesses seeking stability and predictability, and the asset-strippers and oligarchs who want to rip everything down and then sift the rubble for gold.*
2022-02-02T21:33−08* / February 2, 2022
*a link; see a note on notes and links and a disclaimer; see also the about post and the archive of miscellany or notrehta posts
see also a November 2020 column by George Monbiot on the civil war within capitalism over Brexit*
*a link; see a note on notes and links and a disclaimer; see also the about post and the archive of miscellany or notrehta posts
see also a November 2020 column by George Monbiot on the civil war within capitalism over Brexit*