For the first time in a decade, I find myself sitting in an office writing about tax rather than camped in a muddy field in Somerset getting inebriated on strawberry cider. Am I bitter I’m not at Glastonbury? Well, yes. I can’t say I’m too sad to be missing tonight’s headliners U2, however. But while [...]
The government couldn’t move him. In the end only cancer could. A symbol of peace and freedom, an icon of the anti-war movement and a picture of stalwart self-sacrifice for the cause of right. Regardless of what anyone on the left thought of his tactics, I don’t think anyone could argue that he gave anything [...]
A version of this article was first published in International Tax Review Bongo players, Robin Hood, men dressed as drag dinner ladies and Mrs Doyle from Father Ted proclaiming the only tea she does not like is poverty greeted activists as they filed into Westminster Central Hall to lobby their MPs. But behind the fun [...]
One of the most encouraging political developments of recent years has been the growth of pluralism on the left; different parties and groups slowly learning to collaborate with one another without merging or losing their identity. This is the ‘campsite’ model beloved of Neal Lawson and Compass, consciously modelling itself as a more open, less [...]
It should, I think, be uncontroversial to state that using a chemical agent that does this to peaceful protestors is pretty fucked up, to say the least. I was at the UKUncut Boots action on Sunday, and the sight of innocent people staggering blindly around while screaming in pain through tears and mucus is not [...]
Guest post from Danny Chivers, one of six defendants whose charges were dropped in Nottingham Crown Court this week, following revelations about an undercover police officer who had infiltrated the UK’s environmental protest movement. Here, Danny explains the extraordinary events that led to the collapse of his trial, and what they tell us about the [...]
A doctor who gave medical assistance to protesters on 9th Dec has spoken of the police risking a ‘Hillsborough-type’ disaster on Westminster Bridge: The anaesthetist from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, who gave medical assistance to the protesters, said that officers forced demonstrators into such a tight “kettle” on Westminster Bridge that they were in danger of [...]
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin’. Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’. Wow! What a month! Are we not [...]
Meet Eric. He’s an ordinary schoolboy who lives at 29 Acacia Road. But what most people don’t know about Eric is that he leads something of a double life. For whenever Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation occurs. You see, Eric is Bananaman. I felt a bit like Eric today, running from my city [...]
I’ll admit, I don’t actually have any real evidence either way as to whether Twitter is out to censor the student protests. So it could, potentially be true. But seriously, how likely is it? I’m not claiming big companies aren’t capable of doing evil shit if they feel the need, but what would an American [...]
