There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.

Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.