Tag: politics
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Footwork #1
On Saturday 12th August I made a mistake: I crossed the river Clyde when there was an international cycling tournament in town. I’d had some experience of this the week before, when I’d skipped round heras fencing and made my way to Buchanan bus station in the early hours of the morning on my way
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Seems We’ve Been Here Before
Far from being separate or additional then, climate and our cost-of-living concerns are absolutely wrapped up in each other. Which is why so many “green policies” are so well-placed to tackle both issues concurrently. Retrofitting houses with e.g. low-carbon heating, solar panels and energy efficiency can improve the quality of buildings to bring down both
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Hey Now, You’re (An) All Star
My current thought about Ursula K. Le Guin is that for someone so ubiquitous her work is strangely underrated. Le Guin was an institution for a long time before her death. She’s now so beloved that any reminder of the fact she was a part of a living, thriving, thinking community for several decades can
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There Are Other Alphabets – on the fall of Roe and dirt bikes
Browsing twitter the other day, I found myself getting annoyed at someone who asked for an explanation of a comic strip Eleanor Davis had shared. Drawn for the New York Times, the strip itself covers a journey to and from a protest for abortion rights that had been undertaken in the company of a small
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