As Britain enters its fourth year of ever-deepening austerity measures since the onset of the global financial crisis, the sails of the good ship Westminster seem primed to catch only the breath of economic tradition – of unwavering fidelity to the City, unchecked ‘free trade’ and a blind eye towards […]
A New Year is a natural time for reflection and planning for change. Time magazine’s choice of ‘The Protestor’ as person of the year owes much to the gallant struggle of our brothers and sisters in the Middle East and Northern Africa – but here in the west, we too have witnessed civil […]
Tomorrow marks two months since the start of the global Occupy movement, and already a tremendous amount has been achieved. Those of us who have been part of the occupations since October the 15th weren’t even sure we would make it through the first night – and in a sense, we […]
The 30th of November is a momentous day in the history of British Industrial Relations: Never before has Britain been faced with three million workers collectively going on strike on the same day. The General Strike of 1926 involved approximately one million workers and went on for nine days. Police […]
Looking out from the Bank of Ideas across at the UBS headquarters, the covered windows reveal a fitting display of ‘blind ignorance’. The finance industry is sick, and the occupy movement is the dull ache it knows is symptomatic of a diseased core, but chooses to ignore in the hope […]
After editorials focussing on the birth of the movement here in London, Cannon Fraser’s resignation, and the student march of last week, perhaps it is time for a little introspection. The Occupied Times is now a familiar sight around St Paul’s every Wednesday, despite a print run of only 2000 […]
One year on from the demonstration that culminated in the trashing of Millbank, students are again on the march. It would be easy to dismiss the protests then as a failure. Fees were raised and EMA scrapped despite mass opposition, but what ‘began’ then has mutated throughout the year, leading […]
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” said one of Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser’s favourite authors – Friedrich Nietzsche. In the light of last week’s events, we can take this affirmation even further and say, at least in the case of Canon Fraser, that some great thoughts are embodied […]
It’s over a week since more than 3000 people first occupied St. Paul’s, and many of us are still here. The transformation of the site has been incredible. We have a kitchen serving food around the clock in accordance with health and safety regulations, an info tent, recycling centre, library, […]