The environment agency want to dig up cox's meadow in cheltenham to prevent a flooding of Cheltenham town centre by the river chelt as happened once in the 70's! Once again nature is taking a back seat to business. Anyone local (maybe we can prevent New Road too 
) fancy getting together for a bit of monkeywrenching in the future?
Occam
The country-wide rebellion that was kicked off by the police murder of George Floyd continues to grow, as across the US people hit the streets in solidarity. Mass demonstrations, freeway shut-...
Lots of people who start Karl Marx's Capital get stuck somewhere in the early chapters of volume 1. In this post, I make some suggestions about how to get unstuck and read the whole book.
An article written in 2008 about a lockout of supermarket workers in New Zealand in 2006, looking at the role workers themselves played in the lockout, including some background to then state of...
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