At 420 rallies across the world people come together in the name of peace and, as Bob Marley sang, One Love — and to stand against racist laws that keep one of nature’s most versatile plants illegal. But at London’s Hyde Park 420 Cannabis Rally 2026 the police were intrusive, provocative and certainly out toContinue reading “The Criminalisation of Cannabis”
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On Britain Today
In the 1960s when the Labour government was in power the country had an air of modernizing newness going on, there was hope and excitement for the future… It was the same in the late 90s/early 2000s after eighteen dark, depressing Tory years. But this time round, after 14 even darker Tory years, there hasContinue reading “On Britain Today”
The Amazons of West Africa
When Western explorers visited the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century they discovered that the King’s military was made up of female as well as male troops – in the 1860s British explorer Richard Burton wrote an entire chapter about the ‘so-called Amazon’ troops of King Gelele. Alfred Ellis, a British armyContinue reading “The Amazons of West Africa”
He-Males, She-Males, He-Shes and They/Thems
in the blur of nonbinary newness and gender ideological mudslinging, it seems we’ve forgotten there’s always been both he-males and she-males, both he-shes and they/thems, butches, bitches and femmes. biological definitions of gender are just part of our current cultural mythology that rates science over soul the exterior over the interior and hides the sacredContinue reading “He-Males, She-Males, He-Shes and They/Thems”
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