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Musings in a climate crisis, wrestling with the big ideas, ups and downs of a newbie activist

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Permission to feel: the key to unlocking our potential?

I’ve dedicated most of this weekend tucking into Marc Brackett’s Permission to Feel. I’ve wondered how much wisdom was lurking in th

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A Lonely Hearts Column for the Anthropocene*

Do you think in books? I thought it was just me – but it turns out others do too. On a random lockdown Sunday evening, when I was mulling over w

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Get me into that doughnut!

Economics. What comes to mind when you hear the phrase ‘learning economics’? When peers were leafing through the UCAS yellow pages of all

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Kindness on social media

The honeymoon period is certainly over for social media. Gone are the naive days of Friends Reunited: now they are Titans capable of swaying elections

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Closure after court technical glitch

I received a good outcome but for strange reasons

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With Many Roots Turns 6

4 July 2020 Six years ago today I incorporated my business. For months it sat there quietly as a few printed sheets of paper. It was, more than anythi

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A bone to pick with Bonnie Tyler: no more holding out for a hero

This is not easy for me to say, I love Bonnie Tyler and while I don’t know her full back catalogue, her two huge hits are synonymous with pure t

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One year on and I have a trial date

It’s just over a year ago since I made the decision to step up my non-violent direct action and use my body, place it in a road and refuse to mo

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