Donald Trump is a Wasteman: My year in t-shirts →
📷 Chris Saunders
“Donald Trump, the wasteman, is somehow still President.
The far right, more emboldened and barbaric by the day, parade streets throughout the western world. Immoral arms dealing, sinister geopolitics and despotism fuel bloody wars and conflict. Short of a holistic upheaval away from fossil capitalism and destructive industries within the next dozen years, climate catastrophe will ensue. And then, of course, there’s Brexit.
Processing the state of our country and the state of our planet, constantly sends chills down my spine, and I know I’m not alone in that regard. We are often faced with difficult emotions – of anger, fear and dread.
Coming to the end of 2018, however, my time as Lord Mayor of Sheffield has taught me two invaluable lessons: that there is always hope even in the obscurest of places, and that the need for compassion in the way we do politics, and do life, has never been greater…..”