How do you find the balance between fully engaging with and empowering the people who have to live with political decisions, without yielding to the views of the people who shout the loudest and have the time and resources to show up to public consultations?
I spent most of today in a sort of stupor, attempting to get on with my work, watching the death toll and number of injured rise, and letting friends and family know that I was alright. It is difficult to look beyond the immediate emergency, to see how Brussels might change.
Brussels unveiled the test phase of its new car-free centre at the weekend, with temporary barriers and new road markings almost springing up around the cars at noon on Sunday. As someone who moves around the city easily without a car, but who is regularly faced with the congestion, pollution and noise that cars inflict…
Polling day is upon us at last in Britain and the Netherlands, so remember to go and vote Green or GroenLinks today. I’ve been up since half five putting A-boards outside polling stations, and leafleting outside Waverley Station, so I’m off home now to grab my polling card and vote. It’ll be the first time…
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and it is just sixteen years since the WHO removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The fact that I can live openly in an increasingly tolerant and much less discriminating society here in the UK is testament to what has been achieved in the relatively…