• Black and white photograph of a protest banner with the words "Wir streiken" (We're striking) and the name of the union.
    Commentary,  Life

    No Birthday Cake

    5 March 2025 /

    I had plans for today, carefully made well in advance. As I wrote in an earlier post, I was going to give out a special lunch for my work colleagues, to celebrate the end of my sixty-fifth year of life. Those plans had to be cancelled, and new plans made: the union has called us out on strike for a day and there is a certain obligation involved; I pay my dues, and it is for this reason that I pay those dues....

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  • A colour photograph of winding railway tracks leading into a railway station. There is a parked train in the distance, and another strain approaches, passing two workers with high visibility vests. The scene is filled with steel supports and columns and electrical wires.
    Commentary

    Taking to the Streets

    3 March 2025 /

    As a child, when I still imagined that television was interesting, I sent a great deal of my time ensuring I would not have to go to bed too early by watching the adult programmes; that is, those documentaries and news bulletins which I equated with being an adult, as opposed to what we now understand to be adult (sexual / violent) content. I gained, over several years, a very solid view of what the world was like: Thunderbirds was never going to be able to rescue us....

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