Megan’s Diary

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…

Twenty five thousand people playing outdoor chess in my old city apparently woke something up here too Word of ChessFest reached me here in Portland mostly through friends back home…

An ocean away from BST and somehow still thinking about the noise complaints It has been raining properly in Portland for three straight days, the specific grey, patient kind of…

Trying to describe the monarchy to a genuinely baffled American left wing book club is harder than it sounds My Portland book club, a genuinely lovely, thoroughly left leaning group…

Different city, same specific flavour of landlord deflection I went to a Portland tenants’ rights meeting this week, entirely unrelated to anything happening back in London, and found myself laughing…

Megan reads national fracture as class contradiction Read the latest on Celtexit over coffee this morning and immediately clocked it for what it is, a nationalist distraction dressed up as…

Megan on Guardian pay and the limits of self-critique Read that Guardian CEO pay has hit five million pounds and felt the specific fatigue of watching a supposedly progressive institution…