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Still not dead
My LJ is threatening to become a place where I archive stuff that I've had put up on other sites, but I thought some of you might be interested in reading something I wrote about feminism and cake for a cooking blog run by political activists. It features the famous cake-in-a-mug recipe, which hopefully makes up for the fact that the actual ( Read more... ) -
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David Cameron's been at it again. Spouting utter bullshit as per usual - this time about "The Enemies of Enterprise". While I'd love to sit and idly make Star Trek jokes, it's much more serious than that, because these shadowy enemies are none other than his good old punching bag, the public sector workers. To hear him talk, you'd think civil ( Read more... ) -
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Hello Livejournal. It's been a while.
Mostly, the reason for the lack of communication is that I have been Doing Stuff, but much of that stuff is not particularly blogworthy. Although I did recently write something for a different blog, about ongoing attempts to piss off High Street businessesMy parents have been on their middle-aged gap year for ( Read more... ) -
Apple Town Free State
Since Thursday I've been spending most of my free time in and around a lecture theatre under occupation by students. It's been fantastic, but I don't really know how to put it into words properly. From the crazy hand signals used for collaborative decision-making, to the local mosque sending us solidarity curry, to the much-hyped dance-off ( Read more... ) -
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If I had wanted to live in a libertarian dystopia, I would have moved to America c. 2002
The government are arseholes. But I say this like it's news, or in some way surprising. It's not. I'm just appalled on a daily basis about how far they will go. Now they're going to abolish speed cameras - a piece of technology which is proven to decrease the number of serious road accidents - because they interfere with the lives of "law ( Read more... ) -
So this is the Big Society?
This evening after work I walked to the bus stop in the pouring rain, and a man said "hiya" to me. So I said "hello" back. For the context of the story, I should explain that the man's behaviour and mannerisms are noticeably odd, but non-threatening - and yes, this is directly relevant. Other people arrive at the bus stop, and the man says "hiya" ( Read more... ) -
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There were 20,000 people at the protest against the government cuts yesterday. Public sector workers came all the way from Orkney and the Western Isles to march against a 20% cut in government spending, and almost half a million redundancies at a time when benefits and services for people on the poverty line are also being cut, on the logic that ( Read more... ) -
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I disappeared off into the wilderness for most of last week for Hippy Tree-Planting Camp. It was fantastic. Look, there are even some pictures that one of the other people on the trip took (they're worth a look for the amazing scenery shots, but every picture I'm in makes me look like Gollum). We planted about 1500 trees in two days, dismantled ( Read more... ) -
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Busy, busy, busy. It was my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary last weekend, so I was up north for that. There was a good party, and lots of associated silliness with mass catering and decanting the living room furniture into a marquee in the garden via the window. Then I stayed up talking, drinking, and generally setting the world to rights ( Read more... )