Liberal is the most confused and confusing word in the English language.

Anyone else spot the disconnect between the NFU Scotland welcoming a delay to climate action and farmers gorwing concerns about climate change harming their crops?

Essential from Nesrine Malik on #Gaza and protest: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Really fascinating character study of an idealistic artist and community builder, a conspiracy theorist, and an antisemite. All the same person. Great work by George Monbiot theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

'Can you tell a blue tit from a wren by its song?', Natural England asks, while identifying a great tit as a blue tit.🤦‍♀️

“Our schools are producing monsters, and it’s now our job to slay them.”

Insanely dangerous and clearly violent rhetoric, aimed at students, from a sitting NYC councilwoman. Once again, people in power are putting targets on the backs of students, in an already-violent nation.

Police brutalizing students protesters at Ohio State University.

They neither had the riot gear nor any of this smoke for the January 6 insurrectionists that were trying to overthrow the government.

Sentient’s Jessica Scott-Reid, M.A. fact-checks Common Ground, the new documentary from the filmmakers of Kiss the Ground.

US and Canadian friends, our book Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism is out in North America on June 4th.
I think you'll find it highly relevant.
Thanks

This Wednesday, online at 8pm. Do join us. theguardian.com/guardian-live-…

Do you ever wonder why, to get what almost everyone wants, you have to fight almost everyone in power?
Here's part of the answer: our politics do not belong only to us. Offshore oligarchs have been allowed to capture them.
This week's column explains how
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thanks James!

You couldn't make this up. Johnson introduced photo ID as a deliberate attempt to rig the vote, knowing that poorer and younger people were less likely to possess it than the older, more settled Tory base. He promised it wouldn't make voting more difficult. He lied. Now ...

I wrote about the fundamental tension at the heart of the European farmer protests scuppering the EU's environmental ambitions: farmers are at once wards of the welfare state dependent on subsidies and a business interest group that balks at regulations. vox.com/future-perfect…

Great article by Oliver Bullough on the Kafkaesque situation faced by people trying to protect the River Wye. Every way they turn, someone says no. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

George Monbiot Check out stopthetories.vote
to see which candidate to vote for in your area

Impeccably sourced and reasoned thread by George Monbiot explaining that for every calorie of protein, organic pasture fed beef does ~7× more damage (CO2 and land use) than grain fed beef and ~1000x more damage (CO2) than nuts.
Which is nuts!