Sitemap - 2024 - STIRRINGS FROM BELOW

Getting away from the fear porn merchants, rage baiters, pedants and grifters

The debate that won’t go away

Rubbing our faces in it...

As we move towards 2025...

Agendas behind the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood

The East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood saga rolls on...

Readings on the ever deepening weirdness we're in

We have questions...

What is the petition calling for another general election about?

The Charge of the Light Brigade v2

Posts on movement

A response to a B24/7 article about the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood

Some thoughts on stability and change

Get the stickers out and the posters up...

I'm back to commenting on the weirdness...

Papers

A slippery slope to an ever more dystopian future?

Narrowing down the parameters of discussion

Keeping the waters at bay...

Stating the bleeding obvious...

Too much change, too much turmoil

It's a drag...it's also class war

Being politically homeless and walking my own path

So, what the heck was that all about?

Problem, reaction, solution - how it's playing out so far

A warning from the past...

This is what a lack of trust looks like...

Beware of false idols, grifters and divide and rule merchants

Re-assessing positions

Now the election theatrics are over...

It was predictable...

It's all so f***ing predictable, isn't it?

Oh FFS!

Resisting the drumbeats of war

Whipping up the war fever

Are we being sucked into the war psyops?

Here we fecking go...

Firstly, they turn their backs...

Honesty vs tribalism

Some brief thoughts on local elections and disengagement

Time for some honest reflection? We can but hope...

What a legacy to leave behind...

15 minute cities revisited...yet again!

Are things really getting weird?

Cultural identity, class and change

34 years ago today

The renegades within our communities

Conflicting signals and where do we go from here?

Well, let's see what happens...

Trying to deal with absolutists

Falling straight into two camps

Clamping down on the right to protest

The war on movement revisited...

Nuance, grey areas and actually listening

Quietly withdrawing consent

Is 'culture wars' a valid concept?

Difficult definitions - 'white working class' and 'white privilege'

Militarism = Authoritarianism

Are we being nudged towards a war with Russia?

'Fifteen minute cities' - here we go again...

Broken...