We’re making badges to signal allegiances: for or against, or simply whose shows we attend, whose products we’ve bought. We want In, we want Out; we want the finest quality ice cream and the freshest sausages; we love the Beatles and we still hate Thatcher. It’s fifty-five years since the Moon landing and forty-five years since Zeppelin at Knebworth, sixteen years since we welcomed Obama and said goodbye to Jacko. We say No to nuclear power and Yes to unspecified change. As we cluster round the table, it’s all about felt pens and slogans, but sooner or later we’ll have to pin them to our lapels, take to the streets, raise our fists high in the air, and fight for the future like we refused to fight for the past.
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Oz Hardwick
Picture Rupert Loydell
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