Jonnie Marbles Prison Blog – Don’t Fear The Jailer
Jonnie Marbles wrote this from prison, where he was serving time for throwing a cream pie at Rupert Murdoch. See his previous prison blogs here. Every day feels like a week in prison, but today was the first where seven days actually got knocked off my sentence. It nearly didn’t happen. I was woken at [...]
Bond markets boom – time to borrow
In both the USA, and the UK, investors are rushing into government bonds. Scared by the turbulent stock market, those with money are desperate to lend money to governments rather than risk buying shares. And so, only a few days after the American government had its credit rating downgraded, its ten year bonds now have [...]
Riot prosecutions raise questions over due process and human rights
The handling of legal cases from the UK riots that took place last week has caused a great deal of controversy. Lawyers in the UK have posed some serious questions about the way that judges and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have dealt with defendants, with major concerns around due process. The vast majority of [...]
Jonnie Marbles prison blog: 47 hours in a locked room
Jonnie Marbles wrote this from prison, where he was serving time for throwing a cream pie at Rupert Murdoch. See his previous prison blogs here. I’m tired and I need a pillow. Yesterday my captors moved me upstairs to a cell with a spotlessly pillow-free bunk for me to sleep on. Despite Splinter’s spirited efforts [...]
Forest Cafe Stunned at Order to Leave Premises
The Forest Cafe is an autonomous social space in Edinburgh. It acts as a venue for art installations and exhibitions throughout the year and runs a popular Forest Fringe during the Edinburgh Festival. You can sign the petition to Save the Forest here. The website for the Save The Forest Campaign is here. This is [...]
Jonnie Marbles – the Prison Blogs
At the start of August, activist Jonnie Marbles was sentenced to six weeks for throwing a shaving foam pie at Rupert Murdoch. He has agreed to let Bright Green re-post his blogs from prison. Below, we have the first two posts. These first appeared on his blog, anarchish. Day 1 – going down by Jonnie [...]
The great train robbery – fighting unfair fairs
Much to the surprise of my instructor I recently passed my driving test. The idea is that, if push comes to shove and someone is ill or something needs transporting, I can borrow a car for a day, safe in the knowledge that I’m not ruining the planet because I’m not a ‘real motorist’. What [...]
Why We Have A Welfare State
David Cameron thinks that the only way to save our public services is by harnessing the opposing forces of volunteerism and capitalism. I’d like to think that history proves him wrong, because, if a combination of philanthropy and market forces could deliver the best deal for our society, nobody would have ever thought we needed [...]
On the North Sea oil spill
So, it turns out that the Shell oil leak is anything but contained. After three days of telling no one that there was a leak in the North Sea, Shell finally fessed up. Eventually, they admitted it was the biggest in more than a decade, but claimed to have it under control. Now, it appears [...]
Total Politics blog awards – vote for us!
Every year, the magazine Total Politics asks you to vote for your favourite blogs. People react in different ways – some blogs ignore the whole thing. They pretend that they are too cool, and that they don’t care. But we all know that they still secretly peak a look at the results. Some run whole [...]
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