Introduction

I was going to write a lengthier introduction to this new blog, but the events of Friday 15 March 2019 bring perspective. I am a May, living in May’s Britain and this blog will be my story of living in these absurdist, sadly too dark-absurdist, times.

We have seen a neo-Nazi murder of 49 people in New Zealand. We also saw climate protests from pupils and students from schools in 123 countries, overshadowed by the grim events in Christchurch.

We have a choice between a culture of common, civilised humanity or a barbarism based on racial scapegoating. For too long, media outlets in the USA, Australia and the UK, among others – many owned by one privileged white man – have with their rhetoric created a climate of opinion that does not explicitly endorse but certainly does provides fertile soil for a far-right culture to grow and advance.

Enough of us chose the right path in the 1930s, and again in the 1970s with the emergence of Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League. We know which future to choose.