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June 24, 2017 by Julie Tomlin

What do we mean when we demand justice for Grenfell?

Filed Under: Ideas, Notes Tagged With: future, grief, justice, London, politics

A new coat for spring

May 17, 2017 by Julie Tomlin

Just as we struggle to talk about loss and grief, we don’t seem to have language about newness.

Filed Under: Ideas Tagged With: community, culture, hope

A revolution of the mind

February 19, 2017 by Julie Tomlin

What do we have to struggle against if we are going to be free to dream?

Filed Under: Books, Ideas, Notes Tagged With: cafes, capitalism, change, Edward Bernays, hope, politics, protest, Spain

Negotiating the new

July 18, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Existentialism may not be fashionable, but the challenge that we use our freedom to decide what kind of world we want and make it happen, seems relevant still…

Filed Under: Books, Ideas, Notes Tagged With: Europe, philosophy, politics

Lessons on anarchy

May 23, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Noam Chomsky’s book On Anarchism has helped me feel less afraid of uncertainty, more open to things unfolding, trusting others and allowing things to happen

Filed Under: Ideas, Notes Tagged With: anarchy, Calais, France, The 'Jungle'

Constructing paradise

May 16, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The most heartening things I’ve seen over the past year or so have been to do with the way people manage to pull together in difficult times

Filed Under: Ideas, Notes Tagged With: rebuilding, resilience

Into the dark woods

May 3, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

I accept that not all of the conversations we have can touch the depths, but so often I’m left with the feeling that what’s really going on inside me simply remains there, silent, unexplored, like a dark forest

Filed Under: Ideas, Notes Tagged With: London, new politics, rebuilding

This is it…

April 4, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

My old life has gone, but as for the future, I really can’t see it yet

Filed Under: Ideas, Notes

The power of one

October 9, 2015 by Julie Tomlin

The story of the lovely garden Jardin del Turia, from what I’ve read, is one of people working together and resisting plans to turn it into a motorway

Filed Under: Ideas, Notes Tagged With: collective thinking, Spain, Valencia

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

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