Month: March 2024

Posted on March 9, 2024

Documenting in photographs some of the current bookshops in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, the world’s first _town of books_.

### Richard Booth’s Bookshop

### Hay Cinema Bookshop

### Hay Castle Honesty Bookshop

### Hay-on-Wye Booksellers

### Addyman Books

### The Addyman Annexe

### Murder and Mayhem

### The Poetry Bookshop

### Gay on Wye

### Green Ink Booksellers

### Broad Street Book Centre

### Clock Tower Books

### North Books

### The Black Mountains Bindery

Posted on March 8, 2024

🔗 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.

Posted on March 7, 2024

🔗 The Long Wait

> Implement a genuine progress index in place of GDP
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> 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.

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Posted on March 7, 2024

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

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