Every time I come to write these end-of-the-month round up, I’m never really sure how to introduce it. June has been something of a muddled up month in the UK, enough that my friends in the US were watching from afar, becoming more and more bemused. The majority of us are going to sit through some kind of election this year - and that incoming change feels just a bit much.
But I also see a lot of hope when I’ve gone out on assignment this month; I have travelled across the UK, in pursuit of research for my next book. (Don’t ask - I may be writing, but I don’t know how to talk about it just yet.) In Liverpool, students occupied a park in the student village with a tent encampment - slogans strung up on material to match. In Brighton, the street art has begun to rapidly grow - especially in the areas where it was taken down due to new policy. And East Croydon has the fresh posters, lacquered to fencing just about everywhere. May I present my first exhibit:
Election times, well, they can suck. So-called ‘culture wars’ serve no one, asides from to deflect from policy taking shape or being legislated. But now is the time of the artists, the activists, the provocateurs - and that has such a worth.
See you in July x
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