{"id":69647,"date":"2023-05-04T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=69647"},"modified":"2023-05-04T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:38:03","slug":"all-i-want-is-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/04\/all-i-want-is-a-future\/","title":{"rendered":"All I want is a future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the despair of the young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/04\/the-news-agenda-exists-to-stop-us-asking-the-important-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in my previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The words of this young woman seem to sum that up particularly well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Britain in 2023. Take a cold hard look at this, and realise that things are set to get much worse. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zFw00dfShh\">pic.twitter.com\/zFw00dfShh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martin O&#39;Neill (@martin_oneill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martin_oneill\/status\/1653826516017356808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She just wants a future. She walked slowly down a road to say so. She was arrested for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>There was another protest in London yesterday. It was against the new low-emission zone. There were few police present, apparently. I have not heard of any arrests. But it blocked Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/04\/the-news-agenda-exists-to-stop-us-asking-the-important-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also said this morning<\/a> that we still have the right to talk about alternatives to mainstream thinking. That is true. But for how long will we be able to share them?<\/p>\n<p>This young woman will, under new powers, now probably get a ban from protesting. Her right to a basic freedom will be contained so that the profits of Shell and BP might be unlimited in order that human life on this planet might end.<\/p>\n<p>Let's value what we have, and use it. The risk is, we might lose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the despair of the young in my previous post. The words of this young woman seem to sum that up particularly well. Britain<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/04\/all-i-want-is-a-future\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,14,35,16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-economics","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69648,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69647\/revisions\/69648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}