It’s not always easy juggling a full time job as a tax journalist with the life of an ardent activist. Sometimes it’s difficult finding the time to duck out to save the world on your lunch break. But when there are several hundred people camped a few feet from your office by St. Paul’s preparing [...]
On Saturday one of my fellow Third Estaters (I’m assuming Reuben) tweeted: Definitely don’t think the left should be calling for a state van [sic] on the EDL march While compelling, I think this view is seriously mistaken. Granted, it’s always a good idea to be wary of calling on the State to do anything [...]
It was about 10 PM last night when I arrived at a police barricade, just south of Tottenham police station. At that point there was a crowd of around 500, men and women of all ages. Most were there in anger, some were onlookers, and others were just trying to get home. A couple of [...]
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 [...]
Anybody interested in the revolution in Egypt should take the time to read this interview by Parvez Sharma with an Egyptian protester: http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2011/blog1102c.htm. Being interviewed is the man previously referred to as ‘Yousry’ to protect his identity, but who now insists on having his real name – Omar – published openly (demonstrating the new sense of confidence among the [...]
In the last two hours riot police and troops in Puerta Rico have opened fire on protesters with rubber bullets and pepper gas, in the Parliament Square of San Juan, wounding a young journalist – reports Radio Huelga. A live feed of events can be found here. Since last year tensions in Puerto Rico – [...]
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 [...]
I was looking through the telegraph’s coverage of yesterday’s demo when I came across this little gem: In a disturbing trend, schoolchildren, many of them female, made up a significant number of the protesters, with many turning out in their school uniform. Golly! young women at DEMONSTRATIONS! Gosh, they’re not even debutantes. And where ARE [...]
As we speak, a blanket of darkness is rolling around the Earth. No, the orcs aren’t invading from Mordor, it’s Earth Hour! That time of year when governments, businesses and hundreds of millions of people around the world make a visual protest against climate change by turning off their lights for sixty minutes. Following the [...]
I did something different this Saturday. I stood in a freezing park in London and took a deliberate overdose of tablets in the company of some of the UK’s most well known scientists. No I haven’t joined some kind of doomsday cult. In fact, none of us were ever at any risk. We were overdosing [...]
