Feb 24, 2022How Democracy Fights BackIn How Democracy Ends, David Runciman cautions against the expectation that democracies will end in the future in the way that they have ended in the past. Our pictures of the death of democracy, he says, are pictures of military coups and dictators, of the collapse of short-lived, fragile institutions…Democracy9 min readDemocracy9 min read
Jan 29, 2021Why I broke the law with Extinction RebellionIn October 2019, as the police clamped down — unlawfully, as it turned out — on Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests that were taking place around the capital, I sat down in the road and glued myself to a fellow protester. Almost a year later, in September 2020, as it became…Extinction Rebellion6 min readExtinction Rebellion6 min read
Published in Extinction Rebellion·Jul 19, 2019The Real Problem of Hypocrisy for Extinction RebellionAs Emma Thompson, Rupert Read, Robin Boardman-Pattison, and many others have discovered, if you’re involved with Extinction Rebellion (XR), then sooner or later you will be accused of hypocrisy. Certainly, critics have not been slow to highlight the apparent irony of taking polluting forms of transport to environmental protests that…Climate Change6 min readClimate Change6 min read
