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What happened to the ‘Homes for Heroes’?
After the war, the government oversaw a huge building and rebuilding project, to repair and replace war-damaged infrastructure and, under the banner ‘Homes for Heroes’, to provide council housing in particular for the families of returning soldiers, and more widely to address the housing shortage and make homes available for all who needed them. This…
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Democracy – who needs it?
This is a personal view of what’s currently happening in my town. Please note – it’s my opinion – I am all too well aware that there are currently people who seem to remember things panning out quite differently and I have no intention of ‘doing a whatsapp’ and setting my version against theirs. Reality…
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No help here, Labour!
A funny thing is happening. I wrote the blog 10 pledges to end the leadership crisis for Labour in 2020. It is not a serious proposition. I just re-worked the advice the ‘leadership’ had just received from the Board of Deputies – ie, reworked it so it was actually honest and fair. I had to…
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What is Your Party really dying of?
With thanks to Chetan Bhatt and Paul Knaggs for some definitions of things that we know but are very good at forgetting to take into account. A very wonderful am dram group presented a rendition of Peter and the Starcatcher in my town last Christmas. Good it was, funny it was, troubling it was, because…
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Books and broligarchy
A couple of blogs ago, I wrote about a Rose Tremain novel that I’d missed… … that set me off looking through her works to see what else I hadn’t read, and I came across Islands of Mercy. More of that presently… This week, I wrote about what the Epstein files really show up, and…
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The borogroves are getting mimsy again
A verdant crown in a mailbox requires a crooked adjustment of every gate in the street. A valuable tug will intend towards the ludicrous but friendly, luxuriant bikes will sink in wandering axiomatic cribs unless nostalgic advice is accepted to put a brake on cautious account control. The supreme bleach face will fetch a good…
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Chomsky – Epstein – gender industry! — shocked?
I’m not. Nor are you, are you? Did you notice that once social media had had a day or two to gossip about the new releases, most thinking people have come round to ‘well, we knew that was how the world worked, nothing’s going to change…’ Honestly, go over to YouTube and watch some old…
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But seriously, folks…
Are you still ‘for the many’? Are you one of the 850,000 who signed up as soon as Jeremy Corbyn declared a new party? Are you one of the (now less than) 50,000 who are still hanging on? Or one of the 4,000 or so who are still engaged enough to join in the endorsements…
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Campaign to save the NHS from Palantir
I had a wee rant the other day about Palantir, and my doctor’s surgery’s inability to communicate with humans. This evening, I listened to Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project meeting discussing how to fight back for our NHS. Corbyn spoke about how well the government petition against Digital ID worked, getting over a million…
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Bolivar circles
There were around 20 of us – we’d come along to this month’s Left in the Cinema in Hastings. We’d just watched The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, to remind ourselves of some of the history of Venezuela. Now, the film was done, and we gathered in a circle to discuss it. We weren’t all…
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Kay Green 