Tag: Just Stop Oil
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Public Emergency Number One
I have deleted my first few attempts to write about this opportunity to address the climate crisis. It’s so enormous, and comes after so many frustrations and failures. The faux left are still out there shouting “one struggle, one fight!” — meaning anyone who’s discontented enough to be out on the streets must agree with…
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When the war is lost and won
An ode to Hampden Park The spuggies were singing at Hampden Park this morning. They were called sparrows when I was a kid, and they were everywhere. Every bush and tree went cheep! cheep! Every sudden movement by humans was answered by the whir of a hundred sparrows taking flight. A generation ago But my…
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What do you do when your country is complicit in such a crime? Here’s what…
First Gaza, now the West Bank. We’ve been out protesting for nearly a year, and the forces of the establishment are taking a toll on our activists — but here’s an idea that could change that: Any of us can, at any time get called up for jury service and right now, what you do…
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Just Stop Obfusticating
Last time I saw Stonehenge I was in the modern world. Quite glad of the almost permanent slowing of through-traffic, which infuriates the ‘get there yesterday’ people, and gives everyone else the chance to take a look at the stones in passing. We discussed it a bit, sitting on a picnic bench on the concrete…
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I found the racism, now what?
At least the BBC has the decency to mention the Pennines, the Co-operative Movement and Gracie Fields but other than those reasons to think about Rochdale, this article is mainly rattling with racism and as far as I can see, that’s really not the fault of the people of Rochdale. I decided to spend a…
Kay Green 