Labour Organising
From the UK. Organising 101.
Bill
Race, Class, Global Warming and Democracy.
Nothing and no-one is separate in this world. Nothing and no-one is more important than anything else or anyone else; no voice greater and no voice lesser.
Festival of Dangerous Ideas
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time.
Disturbing.
Given the topic of this post, it seems appropriate not to attach an image.
World Water Week
Never heard of it? Neither had I.
Free Petrol Pt IV
Part IV of IV
Free Petrol Pt III
Part III of IV – a focus on road transport.
Free Petrol Pt II
Part II of IV. How to achieve zero carbon from the shipping and aviation sectors by the 2030s.
Free Petrol Pt I
Part I of a IV part series of posts on what we can do to hold global warming below 2 degrees C.
Eagle vs Window Pane
So Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been openly challenged.
The Chrematistic Camel
So this post is about a suite of frameworks not to adopt if the goal is to avoid 2 degrees of global warming.
Chilcot, Corbyn and the UK Labour Party caucus.
Three dots.
Updated
It’s a Side-show, “Bob”.
From the circus that never leaves town.
Good News!
May figures just out…
Next Floor
A short film by Denis Villeneuve…
The Mother Budget
There are budgets and there are budgets. And for all the presence or absence of bright ideas, there’s a budget that threatens to subsume all others…
Portugal
There are bits of good news out there, but there’s a lot of denial around the mess we’re in.
Nice weather down here…
… and a freight train coming down the tracks.
What Possibility a Mid Winter Celebration?
According to the Herald on Sunday, some people aren’t just sitting back waiting for the Chilcot report to be released before deciding what to do. Some people are getting geared up.
Welsh Assembly.
A post to illustrate how fixed term parliaments work…off the back of some really woeful reportage.
Maybe stop dropping it…
…the hot potato – stop dropping it. Maybe grow the fuck up and react intelligently to the blindingly obvious.
In the Home of Labour
Still out of touch and running out of time.
Off-shore Trusts (a simple solution)
I know this won’t happen, but still…
Simplicity
Good shit happening in France.
Goodbye.
South Dunedin, Lower Hutt, Christchurch, Napier…
House Tales.
If ‘home is where the heart is’ then what’s the story when everything’s heartless?
Glasses and Brick Walls (& woods and trees).
The thing about not having great sight is that sometimes you don’t really see things coming.
Christchurch, keyisms and this state we’re in.
There was a gathering in Cathedral Square in Christchurch on Sunday the 21st of February.
A one and a half hour recording of the event was put on youtube. Speaking begins at around 13min.
Corporate Saviours
oh, hallelujah…
Hard Numbers to Remember.
This post is essentially a distillation of two presentations given by Kevin Anderson at the Earth 101 gathering in Iceland earlier this year. You can view them here and here I highly recommend that you do as they are packed with high quality, no nonsense information. For those who don’t know, Kevin Anderson was the director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research organization and is a professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester.
Human Rights, Psychos and Opposition
New Zealand’s bloody awful parliamentary debacle.
Finally Fighting for Democracy?
Boots on ground.
Portugal
This is going to end well…
Have a Drink Hoss!
So, by my understanding, in ‘three party’* Canada, the New Democratic Party sought the center and nosedived. Simultaneously, the Liberals moved left and […]
Climate and Trade
The proposed TPP is a protection racket – not a trade deal.
Bashar al-Assad and other Bastards.
What proper journalistic coverage of Syria looks like.