George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer, known for his environmental and political activism. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State The Corporate Takeover of Britain and Feral Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding . He is the founder of The Land is Ours, a peaceful campaign for the right of access to the countryside and its resources in the United Kingdom. In January 2010, Monbiot founded the ArrestBlair.org website which offers a reward to people attempting a peaceful citizens arrest of former British prime minister Tony Blair for alleged crimes against peace.

George Monbiot was born in St Marys, Paddington, a public hospital situated in what was then the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington. The birth was registered in the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington. He grew up in HenleyonThames in South Oxfordshire, England, in a house next to Peppard Common. Politics was at the heart of family lifehis father, Raymond Geoffrey Monbiot, is a businessman who headed the Conservative Partys trade and industry forum, while his mother, Rosaliethe elder daughter of Conservative MP Roger Gresham Cookewas a Conservative councillor who led South Oxfordshire district council for a decade. His uncle, Canon Hereward Cooke, was the Liberal Democrat deputy leader of Norwich City Council between 2002 and 2006. Monbiot was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, an independent school, and won an Open Scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford.

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