Activism/Tea

I've finally accepted that a cuppa is not wasted if drunk sitting in front of a screen as opposed to at the table getting inky thumbs from paper news and have been making the most of it. That and it's good to read. And anyway, a tea making type of kettle is invariably preferable to a police kettle.
Here's some of what I've been reading...
Bad kettle
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/nlpblog/fulltext/kettled_at_westminster/
GAH! KETTLE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/22/kettling-video-appalling-police-watchdog
Social mobility?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/28/working-class-social-mobility-education
Cameron kills children??
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/16/spending-cuts-rise-absolute-child-poverty
What next?
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/where_next_for_the_students_movement_an_nlp_roundtable/
After all of this (well, to be honest, not after all of this - more like after a steady and well developed tea drinking couple of years) I'm pretty certain that tea is the key to my ability to concentrate. It's also partly the reason I can read most of the above and not break down completely. It's good to be able to justify an addiction, so my final reading for the day is somewhat less political, although written by someone I'm sure would rally the cause were he still around, a good etonian??!!
http://orwell.ru/library/articles/tea/english/e_tea