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  • I’d quite like to talk to my doctor…?

    I’d quite like to talk to my doctor…?

    Palantir was helpful for people to communicate, until Sauron got hold of it. – Lorenzo Obi Abadinas A nice man from Birmingham or some such place phoned me up and asked me if I wanted him to arrange a shingles vaccination for me at my GP’s surgery. I said ‘yes thanks, I’ve been trying to…

    Kay Green

    January 11, 2026
    activism, NHS, Politics, Uncategorized
    GP access, NHS, Station Plaza
  • What do you think about International Law?

    What do you think about International Law?

    What is International Law, and why was it established? Formalised by organisations like the United Nations, the purpose of International Law was initially to make trade deals between states workable but, and this is what interests me, also to protect us, the people of the world, from rogue governments. It is supposed to force states…

    Kay Green

    January 8, 2026
    activism, Politics
    International Law, Palestine, Venezuela
  • But what can we dooooooo?

    But what can we dooooooo?

    On Sunday, wondering what on earth we could do about the terrible events in the world in the last few days, I listened in to an emergency rally for Venezuela, hosted by the VSC, with attendees from the main anti-war groups and other organisations, such as trade unions. There were 500 in the zoom, and…

    Kay Green

    January 5, 2026
    activism, Politics
    anti-war movement, CND, Stop the War, Trump, Venezuela, VSC
  • International law

    I wrote to my MP this morning. I suggest we all do this. Here’s what I said… Dear Helena Dollimore, In his attack on Venzuela, Donald Trump has further progressed the world’s catastrophic slide into gangster-rule. In what is without question a multiple breach of international law, Trump has kidnapped the president and his wife,…

    Kay Green

    January 5, 2026
    activism, Politics
    Helena Dollimore, Keir Starmer, President Maduro, Venzuela
  • A shameful day for the English

    A shameful day for the English

    One of the ironies of any work in publishing and the book trade is that, because your work involves a lot of reading, you’re always at least a decade behind on what ‘everyone’ has read. That’s why, now the book-work is down to a minimum, I like doing my occasional series of ‘reviews of old…

    Kay Green

    January 4, 2026
    Book reviews, book shops, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized
    Maduro, Rose Tremain, The Road Home, Venezuela
  • Did she just drop her final clanger?

    aka Trot on, millennial So, the feminists never joined, those with ‘socially conservative views’ jumped ship before conference, and anyone who’s not keen on the SWP or the ‘trans liberation’ agenda were ready to walk by the end of it. But a fair few of us are hanging on, in the hopes of getting an…

    Kay Green

    January 2, 2026
    Uncategorized
  • Nation states, surveillance and control

    Nation states, surveillance and control

    I am hearing resolutions this year about a renewed search for peace and justice, and liberation. Resolutions made, in many cases with more determination than hope. One of the things we need if we are to take meaningful steps toward those celestial goals is memory. In some cases, it’s just about remembering a year or…

    Kay Green

    January 2, 2026
    activism, Politics, Uncategorized
    liberation, nationalism, Rojava
  • The long road to Farringdon

    The long road to Farringdon

    aka state of the Sisterhood 2025 ***NB there is a damning view of the Labour Party here, and a lot about FiLiA 2025 along the way, so I would like to make  a distinction: whilst the Labour Party deserves to be despised, FiLiA is a unique and tremendously useful organisation, a charity which is largely…

    Kay Green

    December 22, 2025
    activism, Politics, Uncategorized, women
    FiLiA 2025, Southall Black Sisters
  • An orgy of destruction

    An orgy of destruction

    Your Party, FiLiA, Zionism, the trans issue… People are asking now, is Your Party over? We never did figure out who ‘you’ is but, after New Year, local groups across the country who reckon we are us will be mustering to do what Your Party founding documents require, which is to organise, to further engage…

    Kay Green

    December 21, 2025
    activism, Politics, prejudice, women
    FiLiA, trans rights, Your Party, zionism
  • Credit where it’s due

    Credit where it’s due

    [Header image: a video by The Canary, as the police inform those standing vigil that an ambulance is finally on its way to Bronzefield] To friends who aren’t willing to give Your Party a go, and to those who’ve given up in exasperation – I get it, I really do! But – well, the following…

    Kay Green

    December 17, 2025
    activism, Corbyn, Politics, Uncategorized
    hunger strikers, The Canary, Zara Sultana
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