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Living in a material world

October 6, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Paul Mason’s argument that we should focus on building the new system within the old offers an outline of things I sense will be important in the new landscape

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Ideas, Notes Tagged With: Madrid, new politics, Spain

Read all about it…

September 1, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

People, books, stories, ideas and reading are weaving themselves together in my life

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: London, Susan Sontag

Struggle and story

August 26, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Nigerian writer and poet Chinua Achebe’s reflections on “meaningful optimism” – inspiration when hope seems in short supply

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: 28 Days, hope, London, politics

Could postcapitalism be the great leveller?

August 19, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

I’m inspired by the idea that postcapitalism could act as a leveller between men and women, and present us with a location from which a more just society could be created

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Ideas Tagged With: economics, feminism, London

A tale of two cities, or more…

July 4, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Back in London I feel cut off from Athens, missing the conversations, the intensity, the roll ups, the sense that politics matter

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece, Madrid, Spain

Knowledge and power

July 1, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The question of whether we can make a difference in the world seemed particularly important as I walked through Plaka on Monday

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece, Spain

A new era begins

June 29, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

As we sat eating souvlaki and tzatziki in a Monastiraki restaurant, Maria read on her Twitter timeline that bank closures and credit controls would start Monday

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

The stones are silent…

June 28, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

While all the tourists come and go, Greeks in cafes like this around the country are having conversations that will decide the outcome of the 5 July referendum

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

Intellectual pursuit

June 10, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Do places like Café Gijón in the 1930s, where intellectuals, writers and artists got together to talk, argue and debate exist any more? Did they ever – at least as I imagine them?

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Madrid, Spain

Will the revolution will be feminised?

May 30, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Talking to Nieves and Maria in Cafe Molar, it struck me that something revolutionary could be happening, that Spain’s women could be both visible, and fully involved, in shaping the country’s history

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture Tagged With: Madrid, Spain

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