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Month: September 2014

A cultural escape route?

Posted on 20 September, 201421 September, 2014 by preorg

I keep finding myself saying to people that I’d like to see a political culture in the UK. This is about developing the language to describe our situation and possible routes out, and about finding new ways of working together. You could contrast it to the NGO approach: trying to campaign and lobby government without…

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Our empty urban commons

Posted on 8 September, 201421 May, 2023 by preorg

My journey began when I pulled out of my driveway onto empty streets. Not completely empty you understand; just deadly quiet, like most streets in Britain. You notice it when you come back from, say, India, or Colombia, where the streets are often full of people socialising, selling, buying, praying, begging or otherwise lurking in…

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