Sometimes you don’t realise how hard something is until it’s over. A battle. Parenthood. Divorce. That kind of thing. Camping all through the winter in the city, unexpectedly, with strangers, with increasing numbers of vulnerable people demanding that you care and attend to them (whether you like it or not). […]

When looking for theories on the idea of consumption, its origins and the related human mechanism of desire from a more basic perspective, I stumbled across a collection of essays by David Graeber. Graeber, known as the man for consumer-critical anthropology (he is not so excited about being called “anarchist […]

Occupy Oakland (#OccupyOakland #OO) is known for its radial tactics and violent confrontations with the police. On January 28th, some 400 people were arrested, and demonstrators broke into the City Hall and burnt an American flag. Regardless of whether this was a stupid thing to do as it added to […]

The Occupy movement is based on some core principles of structure and process: non-violence, inclusivity, democratic decision making and a non-hierarchical horizontal structure being the most obvious. I’m a fan of them all, but talking about them – or more accurately, where their limits ought to be – seems almost […]

I was in the High Court on Wednesday to witness the judgement handed down to the occupiers as to whether they had the right to keep camping outside St. Paul’s Cathedral.  The court room was standing room only, sweating with protesters, bored-looking journalists and a handful of City of London […]

The Guardian published an article in Comment is Free last week written by Sid Ryan; a blogger who decided to cash in on two weeks spent at Occupy by writing a ‘tell all’ hack-job. In his piece, Sid laments the range of views within the movement, and the ‘obsession’ with […]