People, books, stories, ideas and reading are weaving themselves together in my life
Struggle and story
Nigerian writer and poet Chinua Achebe’s reflections on “meaningful optimism” – inspiration when hope seems in short supply
Caught between despair and hope
Sitting in Peckham, between spells of rain, it was good to hear Alice, urging me to see my life as part of something bigger and, like her, to try to make a difference
PostCapitalism: There are no short cuts
It’s one thing to survive a catastrophe, or any kind of trauma; it’s another thing entirely to recover and start to rebuild
Facing up to Greece’s nightmare
We can’t avoid confronting the full scale of what’s happened to Greece by retreating into arguments about what could or should have been done
Dreaming of a different kind of union
In the UK I have to work harder to hold onto the things that seemed so clear in Greece, but what I’ve seen there, and in the Netherlands this past week, also fuels my dreams
The power of us
Holding the tension between acknowledging the full scale of loss and continuing in hope isn’t easy – but it is the stuff that great exploits are made of
A place for everything
Amsterdam was an interesting location to think about Simone Weil’s argument that order is a basic need of the human soul
A tale of two cities, or more…
Back in London I feel cut off from Athens, missing the conversations, the intensity, the roll ups, the sense that politics matter
A matter of life and death
On this night in Athens, I didn’t want to accept the idea that nothing could be done to reign in the power of the corporations and the economic elites
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