The anger in my grief

If I was a poet I’d pen some verse. If I was a boxer I’d punch a wall. But I’m me, so I’ll rage at society and its ills. Because today they buried my friend. He was one of my closest friends, someone I’ve grown up with one way or another...

This hydrogen deal is another disaster

Dear god, here we go again. When Common Weal looked at a hydrogen strategy the second worst possible scenario that we could devise was for the generation of the hydrogen to be privately-owned by an overseas company selling via pipeline to a continental market. Let me...

When no-one is sleeping, we need to wake up

First published by Common Weal Are you sleeping well? Because I know a lot of people aren’t. I’m one of them, and when I’ve shared that with other activists a worrying number have said ‘no, me neither’. I get emails about despair. It is...

We must fight back against stupid paperwork

Yesterday I was in Birmingham speaking at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Economic Development. I was talking about the kinds of economic shifts we need to make in a changing world and as part of that I discussed decentralisation and the need to remove the...

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