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Echoes, encounters, encampments
The film starts with a shot of empty grass surrounded by a tall fence. “Create a space for people to gather, and they will do it,” says someone remembering the recent encampment. I’m thinking about Greenham Common, about the New Age Travellers’ encampments, then about Parliament Square, how I stood and stared at that ancient…
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This is about more than Killing Corbynism
The response to Corbyn’s leadership was not the result of random events. It was the culmination of a strategy that had been instigated by the State of Israel and developed over time, with the involvement of some of the main players in what would become Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism crisis’. – Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Killing Corbynism The picture…
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The hair-raising transformation of a SPAD
[Note to Hastings: I am three blogs behind myself, because I was stuck on this book review. On the one hand, there’s the angry, bitter, political version, reflecting the rage and dread we’re all feeling; on the other, a positive review, full of admiration and falling over itself to tell everything I learned — because…
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Where’s the cafe that’s just perfect for you…?
It might be the quality of the coffee or the sandwiches. It might be the staff, the sounds, or the nature of the space. It could be the meeting place of people like you, or the vibe that says ‘seaside’, or ‘Hastings’ (or St Leonards, if you’re over that way). It could be so many…
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For a Materialist Left: Photos and videos
I said I’d post again when the videos were released. Links below. Thanks to Ian McNee for a smashing set of photos here’s a selection… All the speeches will be available soon on the Materialist Left YouTube channel, for which, thanks goes to Inside Film. Here are the first two panel sets… Panel 1: Mary…
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An Extraordinary Materialist Meeting
Actually, I had the cheek to wonder on the way home if the conference I attended on Saturday was unique. It’s certainly unusual in the current political climate… The materialist left That means people who profess a politics based on sound, evidenced analysis of what’s going on in our society. It means acknowledging the very…
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Toilets, toilets, toilets. TOILETS!
In the EHRC guidance on sex-based provisions, this government (that has apparently sweated over this composition for a year) advises trans people to use the accessible toilets if necessary. Meanwhile, all the people you’d expect to be standing up for women are making a ballyhoo about how terrible this all is for trans people. I…
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Fly Trap
I remember reading The Fly as a teenager. I’d seen the film – the 1950s version, not the 1980s one – we kids were rather keen on sitting up late on Saturdays to watch daft old horror movies but, as you’re probably already thinking, Katherine Mansfield’s story of the same name is nothing like that.…
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Why the #FreePalestine movement can never be defeated
People who listen to the news, listen to the politicians, are very good at jeering at individuals, or individual projects, which are part of the global effort to bring aid to Gaza (more about this down there, under the heading Aid for Gaza). What they miss is that the meaning of aid here is not…
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Thank you!
It’s too long since I’ve said it with flowers. Thank you, to readers of my blog who have commented, liked, shared, subscribed or donated. You are the people who keep blogs alive. Thank you. Thank you to those who share indie blogs across platforms, or into different groups — not only are you helping those…
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