May 23rd — The UK’s New Doomsday

With the passing of March 29th — supposed to have been Brexit Day — two dates loom for citizens of the UK and Europe.

Free Festivals were part of a protest movement in the UK in the 1980s. They ended in a bloody confrontation in a Wiltshire bean field in 1985 Image from Wikipedia, attribution unknown.

I sometimes find it surprising to realise that no-one under 55 was an adult during the whole of the 1980s. I have been recalling my rather peripheral involvement in politics during that decade and wondering…