George Monbiot is one of those rare intellectuals who manages to teach you something profound each time you listen to him.

As we witness the current economic landscape, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're still in a recession. These times can pose significant financial challenges.

@FairGosling

19 күн бұрын

Indeed, Recessions have a way of affecting people's financial stability and investment portfolios in profound ways.

@RitaMeyers-oc4le

19 күн бұрын

Oh yeah! You can definitely say that, it does worry me a bit, but not as much as it would worry the average guy, my investment portfolio has survived a couple of recessions unscathed. It’s important to stay informed.

@BigCheckerC

19 күн бұрын

@@RitaMeyers-oc4lesounds great

@BigCheckerC

19 күн бұрын

I’m curious as to how you’ve been able to stay afloat even at times like this.

@DerrickMansard

19 күн бұрын

Same here. My portfolio has been a joke since the last quarter. It’s really disheartening

George deserved much more time.... Speaking truth to us all.

Spot on. We are battery hens, clucking, eating, consuming and crapping in our tiny worlds, with the rich telling us the barn and bird feed is all we deserve, whilst exploiting every aspect of our lives..

I can't get enough of Coco throwing out an idea or something she did or experienced and Nish coming back and taking a jab at Coco and Coco giggling away. The whole show could just be this, but that said, I appreciate the work you guys do. It is a bit alarming to see that British conservatives and American conservatives are taking similar tactics to really put the screw to the citizens such as the tactic of playing bookkeeping games with the NHS so as to sabotage it while insisting they aren't effectively underfunding the organization. In a similar vein to Republicans who tried to sabotage the US Postal Service in 2006 in a disgusting attempt to drive it to insolvency and bankrupt it so they could privatize it (guess that already happened with the trains in the UK from the sound of it). They both seem to be in the habit of sabotaging and breaking things in their respective countries in bad faith as if that "proves" that whatever government institution "doesn't work".

*I LIVE IN A PASSIVE COMMI BLOCK IN BULGARIA* I have not turned the heating on or the AC on for 5 years....!!! It was built in 1980, windcatcher on the roof for colling Massive south facing thermal mass south facing warms up in summer keeps you at 18C until end of Jan when most people put the heating on - I just put jumpers on.

I still can't believe that we have a "Minister for Common Sense" in this country, it sounds like something that would be too silly for a Monty Python skit. Me, Dominic Cummings and Nish all have the same opinions on the Tory Party in that we never need to hear from them again for at least several decades.

@alexharrington6459

20 күн бұрын

Let's hope forever.

@Notalloldpeople

20 күн бұрын

Rejected by Monty Python as being crassly unfunny as it would never be a thing..unlike the ministry funny walks

Excellent episode, loved George, have him on again.

@matthewkeating5963

20 күн бұрын

I've been listening to George since the mid naughties he has always made sense to me.

Scaffolding is absolutely the correct way to describe the boob situation in Bridgerton. It’s women in STEM.

This episode was one of the best yet. I think George Monbiot was a fascinating person to listen to. He managed to be both funny and actually talk about deep and complex issues clearly and explain them well. More like him! Also I am very please to hear you doing a Trans episode and reviewing CASS in more detail. I was one of the comments you read out about your brief comments on it before and although I still loved your content (clearly as I am still here) I was worried it was all talk about doing a full deep dive and that we would never see it. I glad to see you keep your promises unlike so many of the politicians you talk about. Love ya all.

A UN special rapporteur being assigned to the UK to investigate food insecurity amongst the populace. Look at what the Tories have done to this green and (once) pleasant land.

@MilwaukeeF40C

19 күн бұрын

That is just loadedazz political show. Don't let globalist state supremacists push agendas in your nation.

Neo Liberalism is another term for Libertarianism which is basically dog eat dog or a rich man's anarchy. I read The Road to Serfdom and it's quite extreme, I will however give Hayek props for his chapter on propaganda and how it works in western democratic society, it's been on full display since last October.

@user-sd3ik9rt6d

20 күн бұрын

Neo Liberalism is soft Libertarianism with a smile.

Why do we still feel poorer? Because all the profits from "growth" goes to the top few per cent. Has done since about 1970. "Growth" itself can come from the impoverishment of the populace - cutting salaries or laying off people increases profits, which adds to "growth". Other negative things for society add to "growth" too - increased debt (= more income for banks), more sick people (= more profits for drug companies), more potholes (= more repairs/sales for cars), and many more. It's not "growth" we need, it's a redistribution of wealth.

We have a large GDP but low wages at the bottom. Suggests that a large percentage of the GDP is at the top and the rich get richer. So a lot of people don’t feel better off.

Altruists Governed By Psychopaths and Rage Against the Machine coming to a venue near you!

I look forward to Dominic Cummings " Peoples, It was a Business meeting and absolutely not a party Party" Being constantly invited to Newsnight Sorry I stole some else's joke

Someone please tell Dominic Cummings that the name People’s Action Party has been taken by Singapore’s ruling party of 70 years

@Mooray27

19 күн бұрын

Someone please tell Dominic Cummings to take a long walk off a short pier.

George is spot on about the zombie doctrine the Tories and others are treating as holy writ.

Really enjoyed this interview.

Out of curiosity, I looked up Nancy Williams Laplace, and she seems pretty tight and outstanding. I read through her resume, educational background.😊

@-vv3rv

20 күн бұрын

Well, I picked the challenge to put my finances in order. Then I invested in cryptocurrency, stocks, through the assistance of my discretionary fund manager

@-vv3rv

20 күн бұрын

Mrs Nancy Williams Laplace

@SC-4rqub

20 күн бұрын

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@MatthewRobinson3

20 күн бұрын

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20 күн бұрын

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Truly alarming. This sheds light on the origins of Thatcher's ideas. I don’t understand why it's called Neoliberalism, however, since it appears to bear no resemble to Liberalism (I feel stupid).

The people's primary idea sounds great however I suspect the political parties would stamp on it if it was attempted in too many places. As George Monbiot pointed out, the Lib Dems tried to stop it in Devon, but they happened to have a candidate who was OK with it. That won't be true in many places.

Hayek's philosophy sounds like the Just World Fallacy applied to economics. The Just World Fallacy essentially says that good things happen to good people, which sounds nice. The problem is that it necessarily implies that if good things aren't happening to someone, that person must not be a good person _(my fellow logic nerds will recognize this as the contrapositive)._ It thus implies that people should look down on those who are unlucky in life _(or who had a bad start or whatever)_ and exalt those who are lucky, and that events are essentially beyond our control aside from each individual being "good".

@GoldnDusty

20 күн бұрын

That fallacy is, in microcosm, the cognitive bias which tends to dominate the British (I can only speak for my own country) middle class. The idea that things are in their right place, and that if they're not, there's a greater authority or force which corrects things. The idea of deference to a higher authority on moral questions, in order to deflect the need to scrutinise one's own morals. By ascribing moral worth a value - i.e. by suggesting the market can price tag moral or social good - one abdicates the need to discern good from bad. It's a very sad world view, when you actually dig into it.

@jgray2718

19 күн бұрын

@@GoldnDusty It's pretty common here in America, too. Have a great day :-)

How you experance the economy may not be how someone else does.

Listening with love from Connecticut, USA! George was a great quest and topic of discussion was 100!

Nothing changes I’m afraid. Read “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists” by Robert Tressell written 1914.

im sorry george but if your opinion that "people make much better decisions than MPs" then explain the brexit vote. and i know the scape goat for that is because people were mislead and there was a lot of disinformation and lies about a whole heap of stuff, but you'd get that if we did move to direct democracy governance rather than representative democracy that we have now. What we need is people able to force a bi-election at any time based on the performance of their local minister. and for the people to force a general election based on the government loosing a majority because of bi-elections.

@markwelch3564

20 күн бұрын

Like George said, it's something people get better at with practice. Anecdotally, I've heard a lot of people only decided their Brexit vote on the day If people engaged with Brexit before the vote in the way they did afterwards, the result would have been different

I agree with most of what George says but he’d never get elected on that policy platform and that’s the sad reality of a gaslit global population. Baby steps won’t be enough but it’s all we’ve got.

White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen are basically the same film premise except one is left wing and the other is right wing. For example, in both films the bad guys are trying to start a war but in one the plan is to send troops in and the other is to pull troops out.

Just before I start- Coco your hair is looking glorious. So long, so shiny - Mermaid hair 🧜🏾‍♀️

Very very enlightening discussion, thanks so much.

keir starma sounds exactly like david horton from vicar of dibley, minus the fun and comeuppance the show typically gave him.

We've been in recession for 2 years (8 quarters of falling GDP per capita = 4.2%) headline number is the consequence of 2 million visas over the last 2 years 0.6 is also the rise in GDP per Capita but.... Food prices have risen steeply some staples doubling in price and energy has been all over the shop reaching a peak in 2023 with energy costs to UK consumers being 30 billion in 2020 and 170 billion in 2023 during which te government spent 50 billion on supporting a privatised industry price gauge Our economy is broken year on year exports are down 7% by volume so Hun t and Sun ak can go drink a pint of Devon Water

hyped for an episode on trans issues 👍 as a trans guy in this country my whole life and the lives of all my friends pretty much feel like one long depressing podcast episode on trans issues, so it’ll cheer me up to hear the ‘hope in the face of overwhelming odds’ podcast taking a swing at it 😸

The core of right wing policy has always been about concentrating power and wealth to as few people as possible. As long as you have a right wing government the average person will never ever see any improvements ever.

I've not seen The Wire (yes, I know), but while working a tech support graveyard shift I did get through all seven seasons of The West Wing in about a month. And that was at normal speed, no 1.5x cheating.

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As a purely intellectual exercise, a Cummings government would be fascinating if only to see how many eugenicists quit as MPs in the first week.

Despite being subscribed and having "all notifications" checked, I NEVER get notifications for your videos. Not only that, no Pod Save the World videos come up in my feed. Every week I have to remember to go and look for them. It's very annoying. I don't know why KZread would not show your videos to your subscribers and weekly watchers!

I would like to inform Coco that waking up at 5am and doing squats does make one a better person... just inherently good. 😝😂🤣

is it not all like a corner shop in Grantham then

Good haircut, Nish!

Brilliant podcast. Really looking forward to hearing trans voices on your stream next week 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I thought neo-libralism's collapse can be traced back as early as 1987.

I'll bet that guy's passive house reeks of patchouli.

Of course the economy is growing. We're going through a cost of living crisis which exists because part of society is increasing their ability to create wealth whilst workers aren't seeing wages rise at the same rate. So, great for the economy, but poor for workers abd labour can start the next government off by saying we'll done we're out of a recession 😂

Why the angry Nish on all the thumbnails?

What rhymes with third? Thats right this is the third comment on this video, and if you haven't rhymed third yet then I'll give you it's medical name "stool"!!

50 hrs of television in a week? But, don't forget 6 or so of of those hours are from watching the entire Equalizer movie franchise! 🤣

If you had any economic knowladge you would simply say -0,1% + -0,3% + +0,6% = +0,2% growth in 9 months and that is nothing...

Tories: Privatisation will make everything better! Me: So focus of a service will be split between purpose and profit and in doing so you will effectively say 'Here's £100, either fix that corroding pipe... or keep it for your shareholder' and you are, what, surprised that the pipes go to ruin and the share price is high? Fiscal responsibility, eh? Adults in the room you say? Do the people who have to know where you are know you are here? Who held the reigns when the world economy crashed in 2008 and in the great depression? THOSE are the guys you think are the ones who are good at managing the economy? Oh dear. If you think the Tories are good at running economies you may be eating at the same tables as RFK, "Can I have a McBrainworm fillet and a mercury shake?"

You always talk about never forgiving the Lib Dems but what are you never forgiving them for? Now, I’m left wing so I would never vote for the lib dems in a fair system for the same reason I would never vote for the current Labour Party under a fair system but I still feel like the Lib Dems have been done so very dirty and everybody just goes along with it. We had the tories in power and we got a vote on electoral reform (remember that fair system I was talking about before), fox hunting banned, gay marriage legalised and university accessible for all. I went to university before and after the new tuition fees and I can assure you that the new tuition fees are so much easier to handle than the old ones. I have something like £30,000 of student loan debt and I never think about it because it has no impact on my life. It’s a marginal graduate tax that doesn’t affect my credit score and is forgiven after 25 years. Is it free tuition? No. Were the tories ever going to give us free tuition? No. Were Labour going to? They were the ones that scrapped grants in the first place. The lib dems exist for a very simple reason, for tories and Labour to defect to when they can’t handle their party actually doing what it set out to do. All these tories defecting to Labour should be defecting to the lib dems, all these neo lib Labour muppets trying to scrap all their progressive policies and complaining that there’s no money for things should be Lib Dems but they aren’t because people like you keep droning on about the terrible things Nick Clegg did and because nobody stepped up to make the case for electoral reform when the lib dems fell on their sword to make electoral reform happen

third world uk

Because the UK Government and Economy only helps the very rich and the very poor! The middle (lower and upper) are baring the cost of Tories incompetence! If you are very poor and don't want to work, you can be one of the generations where you can live a good life, and older life with all the necessities as well as some luxuries without ever doing any work, in the same tone, some one extremely rich (the Sunak's) can continue to take advantage of this country whilst paying the lowest amount of tax in comparison of their earnings... Everyone else....well you are asked to contribute more...They will not stop with all the taxes

"work makes freedom", while a proper translation still fails to carry the weight that "Arbeit macht Frei" does.

Just before I start- Coco your hair is looking glorious. So long, so shiny - Mermaid hair 🧜🏾‍♀️