🔗 Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

🔗 Lankum: If microphones are put in front of us, we are going to talk about Gaza

🔗 Think before you click and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint

🔗 I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall: artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life

🔗 The Moon Under Water | The Orwell Foundation

🔗 Small Technology Foundation

🔗 The Anarchists of Dune

🔗 Surrealism and anarchism, past and present

🔗 Fascists’ feasts and grated rat: exhibition of vintage menus serves up slice of history

🔗 Netflix’s 3 Body Problem is sci-fi. But beyond the alien threat lies the trauma of modern China

🔗 A heathenish liquor? A cure for cancer? The history of coffee is full of surprises

🔗 The new science of death: There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense

🔗 Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for rice and peas with mint and sesame oil

🔗 Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’

🔗 Tri esperantismoj post la venko de la angla – Libera Folio

🔗 The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities - including in Gaza

Naomi Klein

🔗 Some thoughts on International Women’s Day

Speaking truth to the power of the patriarchy is unimaginably difficult, even as I live a life of relative privilege. In the past, I’ve experienced deep levels of discomfort at writing one small truth because there’s the worry that I’ll be branded a troublemaker, a man hater, a difficult woman to work with. All of which heightens my respect for those women across global history who’ve had to fight like lions for the barest modicum of political and/or cultural change.

🔗 Destroying capitalism: Lordon and Bookchin, a cross-examination

🔗 Outrage Farming

Sunak leads a government that has introduced the most draconian anti-protest laws in our democratic history. These laws are deployed exclusively against official enemies: environmental campaigners, republicans, feminists, Muslims. If you belong to one of these groups and you block a road, you might go to prison. If you are a farmer and you block a road, the prime minister might join you.

The protest the prime minister attended displayed the banners of No Farmers, No Food, a group convened by a notorious conspiracy theorist, James Melville.

🔗 The Long Wait by George Monbiot

Implement a genuine progress index in place of GDP

At the moment, every attempt to create a greener and fairer country is hampered by the way we measure progress. So my third big policy is to dethrone our use of GDP as a general indicator of how well we are doing, and replace it with more appropriate measures.