Lockdown Update Day 106
30 June 2020 07:48 pmAaand more petitions. These from 38 degrees:
Don't bring back benefit sanctions!
Save the UK’s Arts and Cultural Industries.
Open Letter: We want a Healthy, Greener, Fairer Tomorrow.
(Tie-in article: World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert)
I am reminded of this paragraph from one of my favourite books of all time - The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald (the plague being TB, but illness is funnily not enough the point of this):
'... a tuberculosis sanatorium is a paradox. It should be a place where the patients are striving to get well, aided by the doctors and nurses, but is actually a place where the patients are trying to kill themselves but are prevented, in many cases, by the doctors and nurses.'
I feel that our government fits this quite well? The government should be an authority that strives to improve the lives of its citizens, but instead it seems to do its best to at every point to disadvantage and penalise their citizens and is prevented, in many cases, by said citizens trying their best to intervene and hold the government to account.
Sara Alfageeh on Twitter (x)
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Today's art is 'Summer garden' by Pamela Grace, a contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Scotland:
(x)
Don't bring back benefit sanctions!
Save the UK’s Arts and Cultural Industries.
Open Letter: We want a Healthy, Greener, Fairer Tomorrow.
(Tie-in article: World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert)
I am reminded of this paragraph from one of my favourite books of all time - The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald (the plague being TB, but illness is funnily not enough the point of this):
'... a tuberculosis sanatorium is a paradox. It should be a place where the patients are striving to get well, aided by the doctors and nurses, but is actually a place where the patients are trying to kill themselves but are prevented, in many cases, by the doctors and nurses.'
I feel that our government fits this quite well? The government should be an authority that strives to improve the lives of its citizens, but instead it seems to do its best to at every point to disadvantage and penalise their citizens and is prevented, in many cases, by said citizens trying their best to intervene and hold the government to account.
Sara Alfageeh on Twitter (x)
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Today's art is 'Summer garden' by Pamela Grace, a contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Scotland:
(x)
