Freedom continues its regular prison column with an update from Jan Goodey who is currently serving a six-month sentence for blocking the M25 with Just Stop Oil. Seems to me I’m banged up for stating the bleeding obvious. The Financial Times article entitled “UK needs ‘war effort’ to cut energy bills and carbon emissions, say
Freedom introduces a new regular prison column starting with Jan Goodey who is currently serving a six-month sentence for blocking the M25 with Just Stop Oil. News from the Financial Times had an impact on me. It reported that 9 million homes in the UK have poor or very poor leaky walls, in other words
So far, the hunger strikers of Insulate Britain (IB) have been swept under carpetby the UK press; in fact, getting more favourable coverage in Europe. Not surprisingly the red tops and right-wing media here have been focusing on the establishment line i.e., inconvenience caused to motorists and ambulance delays, to distract attention away from total
As Insulate Britain call a ‘temporary pause’ in their campaign of road blocking, Bill Stickers asks participants is this the road ahead, or a cul-de-sac? After five weeks of causing disruption through human roadblocks, ignoring arrests, assaults, High Court injunctions and the threats of new laws, Extinction Rebellion spin-off Insulate Britain (IB) are vowing to
There is increasing evidence that the MAGA cult was always prepared to break the law when it suits them ~ Louis Further ~ Last weekend saw the first major loss of life whose severity was partially caused by the MAGA/Trump/DOGE cuts to public services: over 120 people died at a summer camp in Texas where
The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of the working class.
The great and good who had mobilised to fight against attacks on the anarchists’ right to free speech recognised its true threat was broader …
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds ~ Taib Hayat ~ Set in a steampunk-themed alternate universe, the orphan girl Lyra grows up among scholars in a venerable British college.
Fight continues for bakery workers convicted of ‘coercive’ union action ~ punkacademic ~ The Suiza 6 began their jail sentences yesterday (10 July) after being ordered to report to prison by the authorities.
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