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Playlink.org WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT firm of consultants, advisors, designers and advocates focused on the creation

WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT firm of consultants, advisors, designers and advocates focused on the creation and maintenance of shared communal and public places. We work across a variety of settings: general public realm, parks, social and mixed tenure housing, and specialist provision such as schools and children centres. We champion the right of children and teenagers to be full participants in suc

h democratic spaces. The pivotal word here is 'shared' - for one cannot attend to the rights of young people in isolation from the needs and rights of the wider community. Our activities encompass:
consultancy and learning;
risk issues;
design and implementation;
voluntary sector management and governance;
acting as a critical, independent friend to design practices, local authorities, specialist agencies;
advice and information;
policy and briefing papers.

In what must be judged an utterly repellent gesture, the UK government along with other governments, has decreed that th...
11/10/2023

In what must be judged an utterly repellent gesture, the UK government along with other governments, has decreed that the Israeli flag be displayed on official buildings to indicate support for Israel. This performative act of perverse, inverted virtue signalling proclaims, by implication, that Jewish Israeli lives are more valuable than Palestinian ones. For what other interpretation can be attached to such a vile gesture of approbation for a state whose defence minister, loudly and publicly, proclaims a ‘complete siege’ of the Gaza Strip; that there ‘will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed’ because ‘we are fighting human animals and acting accordingly’....

In what must be judged an utterly repellent gesture, the UK government along with other governments, has decreed that the Israeli flag be displayed on official buildings to indicate support for Isr…

Archbishop Welby: You stand on unfirm ground
25/09/2023

Archbishop Welby: You stand on unfirm ground







On the 6 September St-Martin-in-the Field hosted a series of talks on the theme of reconciliation entitled ‘Here I stand, I can do no other’. The event was organised by Embrace the Midd…

Israel: Protesting and oppressing at the same time
14/09/2023

Israel: Protesting and oppressing at the same time











Whilst Israel’s democracy warriors continue their mass protests against the Netanyahu coalition’s current and projected changes to the powers of the Supreme Court, the Israeli state’s murderous cam…

Israel: confronting its dreamland
22/08/2023

Israel: confronting its dreamland








The ground is shifting, the habitual reference points obscured.  What seemed entrenched, is now dislodged. Israel is in flux, somehow lost to itself, as countervailing forces and tendencies ri…

Israel's democracy: strange fruit.
07/08/2023

Israel's democracy: strange fruit.








Israel is a country in denial. That is to say, it is a country which has obscured from itself its own nature; and until now, it has been adept at that.  But the protective carapace of self-del…

Two-states: Not a policy, more a futile prayer.
17/07/2023

Two-states: Not a policy, more a futile prayer.










A couple of blog articles ago, I wished the two-state solution, the two-state notional solution, good riddance. And, in summary, I adduced some of the reasons why, ethically and practically, it cou…

Just numbers?
19/06/2023

Just numbers?










Some numbers: 17, 15, 16, 14, 17, 17, 17, 16, 10, 16, 16, 14, 17, 16, 17, 15, 14, 14, 17, 15, 17,11, 8, 5, 17,10, 5, 16, 2. Twenty-nine numbers. Added together, they come to 401.  Those number…

Good riddance: The two state ‘solution’ is dead.
01/06/2023

Good riddance: The two state ‘solution’ is dead.








The two-state solution is dead, notwithstanding that various governments, the EU, the Palestinian Authority, along with sundry organisations, Jewish and not, tenaciously cling to what was always an…

Israeli demonstration. Democracy: What democracy?
18/05/2023

Israeli demonstration. Democracy: What democracy?








Israeli air force pilots, soar through the sky unhindered, unopposed, their lethal, precision-guided ordnance primed to be unleashed against Gazan targets far below. The child, the mother, the brot…

A legislatively enhanced restrictive, hostile environment. The possibility of protest under severe threat.
10/05/2023

A legislatively enhanced restrictive, hostile environment. The possibility of protest under severe threat.









The Government was in a hurry, it needed its latest legislation curtailing fundamental freedoms to be on the statute book in time for King Charles 111 Coronation on the 6th May. The Government achi…

Diane Abbott misspoke. It’s not a hanging offence
27/04/2023

Diane Abbott misspoke. It’s not a hanging offence









So, she misspoke herself. Made a mistake, one she acknowledged.  Not enough, though. Diane Abbott has also to be excoriated, accused of making antisemitic remarks in her letter to the Guardian…

They too also weep
14/04/2023

They too also weep








The pain is excruciating. Beyond bearing. You could see it in their faces. Their hands… Their hands touching… Touching their lifeless child, or the coffin that encloses them.  The tears fallin…

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