Author: Chris

Reflecting on 2021

How to tell the story of 2021? I spent New Years reflecting with friends on our highlights and low points of 2021, so that feels like a good place to start. My lows are obvious, I think. Winter lockdown, the ongoing pandemic, the downward spiral of Tory policies against people seeking protection and human rights,…

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Change

I haven’t blogged for a while. Not for lack of trying, but for most of 2020 I couldn’t get the words out. And then in February 2021 the words flooded out of me so fast that I couldn’t make sense of them all at once.  When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know… I feel…

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Pause

Even though I knew the anniversary was coming up, it still took me by surprise over the weekend when posts began to appear once more about Mawda. Two years ago, shot dead by the police in Belgium. Two years old. Two years old. I will never not be shocked, heartbroken, furious. Nearly more time has…

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