Megan’s Diary

Megan Amram’s diary on Portland organising, club nights, and one very stubborn landlord I want to start by saying that when the meeting notice said “should wrap up within the…

A Portland diary on housing as commodity, ambition as substitute for delivery, and who actually benefits from the wait Burnham’s housing speech crossed my feed the same week Portland’s own…

A Portland diary on regulatory theatre, corporate power, and what actual accountability would look like I read about the European Commission’s eight hundred and ninety million euro fine against Google…

A Portland diary on institutional resilience, protest imagery, and who the metaphor is really describing India’s Cockroach Party marching on parliament gave the reading group considerably more to chew on…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…