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The great realignment of British politics has begun. Where it ends cannot be foreseen.
April 16th: When I started this column in 2016 the initial idea was to write a traditional politics column but from an anarchist perspective.![](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Greater_london_outline_map_bw_Bright.png)
Mutual Aid Groups: Five reflections for ‘Activists’ going local for the first time
April 14th: Inspired by Anna Kleist‘s hot takes on an initial few weeks of local mutual aid organising in the UK, I was inspired to throw in a few (slightly longer!) additional reflections, building on some of the points in Anna’s list, and bringing a few more to the surface.
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COVID-19 and social reproduction
April 11th: This text first appeared at AnarchistStudies.blog, a platform publishing comment and critique related to anarchist activism, anarchist academia, and the wider world as viewed through an anarchist lens.
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Listen up sanes: the intersection of policing and healthcare is nothing new
April 10th: On March 25th the Coronavirus Act 2020 received Royal Assent and became law.
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Calling All Creatives (who are less talented than me)
April 8th: An exciting opportunity has come about to see your writing, which you labour over tirelessly and painfully, be turned into a bite-sized lovely tidbit about people communicating in a socially distanced world.
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Five quick thoughts on the limits of Covid-19 mutual aid groups & how they might be overcome.
April 5th: Three weeks ago, I decided to set up a Facebook group to help people look out for one another in my little corner of south east London.
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Dissecting Boris Johnson’s letter to the British people
April 1st: The prime minister is writing a letter to every household in the UK to a cost of £6m, at a time when the National Health Service (NHS) is suffering under the strains of Covid19 cases.
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Boris Johnson a ‘libertarian’? What a joke
March 26th: It’s really frustrating when people use anarchist terms and phrases out of context or for their own advantage.