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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jul-2018 14:40:26 EDT iona 🐝

   I have always been a bit blasé about the news and politics - it's a storm in a teacup, it'll all blow over eventually, etc.

   But I am worried and starting to wonder if this time it is different, whether our political and economic situation is so parlous that we are in actual danger of material damage to our future and our way of life.

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jul-2018 14:44:29 EDT iona 🐝

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      A report on the political situation on the World at One this lunchtime was followed by an unrelated report about guerilla fighting in the streets in some Central American country.

      The positioning of the two reports next to each other among the current political chaos made me wonder just how far off we are from that kind of conflict here. We've always been "not the kind of place where that sort of thing happens", but that's only true until it isn't.