Aar’s Democracy Diaries: Road To A New Government
Waking Up to politicking, again.
After a period of suffering political fatigue of the repetitiveness of political debate as it has been come groundhog day with nothing at all whatsoever being achieved. Dull and depressing is all how I can describe things at the minute Rwanda, sewage, post-office, receeding economic activity, the Israeli and Gaza conflict, trans-rights. It’s been head bashing white noise that in the extended mid-term period has lost interest since the government has stablished with little above the new norm to show nothing more than all quiet on the western front. At the time of a new general election this year feels right time to pick up the interest again especially as this is the biggest year for global democracy by summer through to winter there’s going to be more big news moments and stories that seem more reverting.
What I’m most interested is when the klaxon on the general race is shot and the full battle is a go to the big election day whereby I will become frequently tuning into station like Times Radio to Kait Borsay, John Pienaar and Matt Chorley, to the The Times website, Guardian, Sky’s Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge and Trendy from Tortoise as a selection of my personal media choices. This has changed from the fast food diet that I had on Twitter now on X before I deleted the app and shutdown my accounts where I’d follow hundreds to over a thousand political accounts. I’ve become less expressive of my own opinions and questioning my own, less active in online politics. Spending less time watching, listening and reading political and newsy content weaning off a hyper-consumption diet of news and politics is healthy for personal wellbeing and better for own personal stress management.
In the past year or so, I’ve found myself more interested in other things like buying and growing a record collection of a variety of genres electronic, jazz, rap, indie rock and a 6 Music and Radio 3 fan of jazz programmes from Gilles Peterson, Soweto Kinch to Huw Stephens, gardening and majorly into doing podcasting again whilst not being a politics podcast of sorts it does lean into things.
The podcasts I host ‘Pacifying with Autisticly Aar’ and ‘Neuro Rainbow Cast with Autisticly Aar’ has discussed a wide-range of issues that correlate to my personal experience of being neurodivergent and have interests in bringing disability politics to the airwaves. I find the politicking in the last year has fallen to noise now I’m further drawn to the sound for a good tory bashing. At times I do like the soap opera and the pantomime of politics and indeed it has delivered over the past few days and quenched my thirst for a General Election which I’d like to be called any day now or any minute now.
