Month: July 2026

A Portland diary on state power, corporate power, and choosing which restriction actually worries you more France’s decision to restrict internet access until citizens behave landed at the reading group…

A Portland diary on sentencing, class, and the plain fact that gets lost in the policy language Two related stories from the justice desk crossed the reading group this week,…

How a spilled coffee, dead internet, and one phone call accidentally worked together I had a genuinely strange day today, the kind where three completely unrelated small disasters happened in…

A fortnight to move undecided votes, and the evidence weeks of patient work quietly built Genuinely significant news arrived this afternoon, the deferred council vote from earlier this week has…

The unglamorous, patient work behind a tenant union actually taking shape Spent most of today at a genuinely chaotic tenant organising meeting in the back room of a coffee shop…

Patient trust building, one nervous tenant at a time, and learning to actually rest Genuinely productive follow up day, spending most of the afternoon in three separate, considerably quieter conversations…

Testifying at city hall, and learning progress does not always look like a win A genuinely significant afternoon, spent almost entirely at a city council hearing on proposed tenant protection…

Why the music scene and the organising scene here have become the same scene A genuinely good, considerably more relaxed day after the intensity of this week’s council hearing, spent…

Meg Abrams’s diary on organizing work, club nights, and staying politically engaged without burning out entirely Monday: The Canvassing Shift That Ran Into the Rain Spent Monday afternoon canvassing for…

Some British institutions simply do not translate, no matter how carefully you explain them I attempted, this week, to properly explain the Wimbledon public queue to a group of genuinely…