Stacey Abrams 10 Steps Campaign lists the 10 Steps to Autocracy & Authoritarianism. It’s terrifying that the Orange One is so very close to completing all 10 steps in the US, but we in the UK shouldn’t be complacent in the face of Reform and/or Restore. However, Abrams has a plan to combat these steps. Her 10 Steps to Freedom & Power show us what we can do.
Refugees
Red Line for Gaza: why does the UK government still sell arms to Israel?
On Saturday 6 September a couple of friends and I marched in support of Red Line for Gaza. The march was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (not to be confused with the UK government’s proscribed Palestine Action). This report suggests there were 300,000 of us; this one that there were 20,000. Certainly thousands marched … Read More
Language: how it means everything, and nothing
A couple of weeks ago some friends suggested we see ENGLISH, by Sanaz Toossi, at the Kiln Theatre. It’s finished its run now, but if you see it advertised anywhere, go. Toossi wrote the play after the travel ban, colloquially known as the Muslim Ban – ‘a licence to discriminate, disguised as a “national security … Read More
A Ukrainian Christmas
Business Ukraine Magazine reports that Kharkiv’s main Christmas tree has, this year, been put up in an underground station – to protect it from Russian air strikes. The magazine also retweeted the Washington Post’s report about Volodymyr Zelensky becoming Time’s Person of the Year: That a leader with no previous military experience chose to remain … Read More
Ukraine: & how we can help #StandWithUkraine
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