The masters house is burning Reading the speech given by Arundhati Roy on the receipt of her PEN prize last week, and then this article by Pankaj Mishra where he says, History has always been a clash between stories in which people aspire to recognise themselves. Our preferred story about the past orients us to the world as it is, offers us a place and an identity, and broadly explains our feelings of possibility. The widely used framework of Western journalism was built on Western...

Balance is a corrupt term in an unbalanced world “Balance is a corrupt term in an unbalanced world.”Jacqueline Rose When the pendulum of justice is hard to one side, coming into balance is not justice. For to do this negates the exploitation and suffering of those who faced and lived through the injustice of the extreme of the pendulum. Allow one class to become extremely wealthy by extreme exploitation, extraction to extinction and colonisation, and we do not find justice in the centre....

How can we change without changing? This is really the truth of most change initiatives. Let’s appear to change. Or tinker with change so we can feel good. Climate Action is almost entirely professing change without changing, for if there was an integrous commitment to change, then people would confront that it will only come with whole systems change. The very operating system of Western hegemony needs to be dismantled. So we gather at places like COP and various Climate Action weeks, and we...