Misc.
Why I’m Standing As A Green. Again.
On May 6th swathes of the UK go to the polls to vote in regional, Assembly and local by-elections, and once again I’m standing for the Greens in the ward in which I live and […]
Read MoreMulling in March 2021
On Wednesday, I celebrated – is celebrated the word? – a year in lockdown. On March 17th 2020 I sat on the opposite end of a park bench from Mum, ate a burrito wrapped and […]
Read MoreIn Praise of… OutsideXbox and OutsideXtra
My relationship with geekdom is complicated. On the one hand, I’m absolutely a geek. But there are geeks, and then there are geeks who have honed their geekiness to a razored point and invested […]
Read MoreNot Talking Politics For A While
I have often used this blog to write about politics. I consider it important to write about politics; it is the map that shapes the direction our country and society. I haven’t written about politics […]
Read MoreThe Hackney Half in September
Unsurprisingly, and not incorrectly, the Hackney Half has been delayed again, to September 26th 2021. This was always pretty likely, and though I agree with the decision it does mean that I will have essentially […]
Read MoreWhen All This Is Over
Here are some of the many, many things I dream of doing once all this is over, and everything is vaccine-central-tastic, in a rough order of least-demanding to most. Hugs I wanna hug someone. […]
Read MoreThe 2020 (2021?) Hackney Half (Again)
There were a lot of storms between the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020. Storm Clara, Storm Ciara, Storm… Caitlin – I know they didn’t all begin with ‘C’ owing to Met Office naming […]
Read MoreChristmas 2020
Today across the UK, offices and workshops are starting to close down for the Christmas break, and frankly I think we’re all ready for it. To everyone about to go on holiday – and to […]
Read MoreGetting Through Being 2020 Fine
A wee while back I wrote a post about being fine in 2020. It was an ode to how we’re basically fine but not fine but sorta fine only not really. You can read that […]
Read MoreThe 2020 Fine
It is a 2020 truth that if you’re not currently a) unemployed b) grieving a loved one or c) ill then what you are… is fine. “How are you?” asks a friend over a […]
Read MoreIn Praise of… How To Save A Planet (and Drilled)
Being an environmentalist has sucked for many years. In the US, there has been (and he’s still clinging on – illegally) a rampantly corrupt climate-change denier running the show, and the entanglement between oil […]
Read MoreA Disappointed Leftie
Dear The Green Party, Five years ago I wrote this: https://www.clairenorth.com/claire-north-posts/2015/09/20/new-old-new-new-old-labour/ … in which I explained to the Green Party why I might be voting for Jeremy Corbyn in 2020. Five years, […]
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