Shock »  shock: civil liberties

Fewer than one people in three now believes that most people can be trusted. Or, to put it another way, most people now believe fewer than one person in three can be trusted. Either way, they’re probably right, as is borne out by …
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Book »  non-violent resistance, and a pet snake


(Iris has accidentally come away from a demonstration with a pet boa constrictor belonging to Arlo, an activist. At the demo, Arlo threw a cake at the CEO of a large multinational, and as a result is in hiding from the police. Because Iris had baked the cake, which was intended for the post-demo celebration party, …
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Confusion »  plastic vs paper, knitting, and Tibet

The news that China had abolished the free distribution of plastic bags and the manufacture of any plastic bag less than 0.25mm thick, probably came as no surprise to Ken Livingstone, who remarked wistfully at a meeting with London Green Party members last year that …
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Blog »  the peacenik’s last supper

‘But can we still eat the chicken pie, even if you get arrested?’

Easter Monday morning; I’m on my way to Aldermaston for the fiftieth anniversary protest at the nuclear weapons research facility. It might look as though no major triumphs have been scored by CND in that half-century, with nuclear weapons breeding like Primark But that’s not the point. It’s all about personal moral responsibility, isn’t it? …
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