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  • The beginning of a lifetime’s work?

    The beginning of a lifetime’s work?

    A guest post by Philippa Tudor I first encountered Holst’s music through singing his beautiful 8-part Ave Maria as a teenager, and knew that he had taught at James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich – where I live – but I never got round to discovering more until 2012, when I ordered a secondhand copy […]

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    February 12, 2022
    Book reviews, book shops, Circaidy Gregory Press
    Circaidy Gregory Press, Forgotten Wives, Gustav Holst, Holst Victorian House Cheltenham, Imogen Holst, Isobel Holst, Michael Short, Millicent Lisle Woodforde, Morley College, Raymond Head, Royal College of Music, Thaxted, The Planets
  • What we owe Harry

    What we owe Harry

    No, not that Harry … or that one, we owe this Harry… This is an article about how to save our NHS. For some years now, we’ve all seen the issuing of a crime number as a sign that the police don’t have the staff or the funds to actually pursue a crime. It seems […]

    kaygreen10

    February 5, 2023
    activism, Corbyn, Labour, NHS, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized
    Chomsky, Howard Beckett, Jeremy Corbyn, RCN
  • What do we want…?

    What do we want…?

    Today, 1st February 2023, the NEU teachers join in the #CostOfLivingCrisis wave of strikes, and this morning in Hastings, all the trade unions and other groups who answered the call #HastingsDemandsBetter gathered in support. Himself and I looked in at Hastings Station, where there was an ASLEF picket line, passed the government buildings where the […]

    kaygreen10

    February 1, 2023
    activism, economics, Hastings, Politics, Uncategorized
    ASLEF, FBU, Hastings Academy, Hastings TUC, NEU, PCS, RMT, UNISON, Unite
  • Why compassionate women should not compromise

    Why compassionate women should not compromise

    People will never forgive you for their mistakes. It feels warm and magnanimous to forgive others for their mistakes but it takes a real grown-up to forgive people who spot one’s own mistakes. That’s why the words “compassion” and “compromise” are constantly flying at women wishing to discuss the state of their sex-based rights, when […]

    kaygreen10

    January 31, 2023
    activism, Uncategorized, women
    #Cassandra, Judith Green, Nicola Sturgeon, Stonewall
  • The Purity Spiral and the House on Fire

    The Purity Spiral and the House on Fire

    Some of the worst atrocities in our history have been committed by ideologues, people so wedded to a political idea-set that they do their politics by the book, and never actually look at what’s happening in the world. In country after country, vast numbers of people have suffered and died whilst state administrations plough on […]

    kaygreen10

    January 25, 2023
    activism, Politics, women
    Helen Joyce, House on Fire, Julie Bindel, Purity spiral
  • Imagine a different world

    Imagine a different world

    Imagine a health service where our top-quality, highly trained A&E nurses and medical practitioners are well paid, and have shorter working hours than average, because of the exceptionally high mental and physical demands of the job, and because we have plenty of them, and we value them all. Imagine a health service where consultants don’t […]

    kaygreen10

    January 23, 2023
    activism, economics, Labour, NHS, Politics
    Jeremy Corbyn, NHS reinstatement
  • A Call To Men Of The Left

    A Call To Men Of The Left

    *** Guest post by Ian McNee*** Women’s Liberation, Identity Politics & Socialism On Saturday 4th February the feminist campaigning organisation Woman’s Place UK are co-hosting their second national conference on women’s liberation with the UCL Women’s Liberation SIG at the Institute for Education, UCL and on the theme: “Education for Women’s Liberation.” This follows their […]

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    January 22, 2023
    activism, Labour, Politics, women
    #Ed4WomensLIb, Ian McNee, UCL Women's Liberation SIG, Woman’s Place UK
  • What defines our country

    What defines our country

    We went to a TUC rally in support of the RCN at our local hospital this morning. Yesterday, I was at a hospital a long way away (because our NHS services are stretched out all over the region, now). I sat watching a tired nurse, trying to hold onto too many pieces of (metaphorical) string, […]

    kaygreen10

    January 18, 2023
    activism, Hastings, NHS, Politics
    #EnoughIsEnough, FBU, GMB, Hastings and District TUC, RCN, RMT
  • Disaster by privateers, public services to the rescue

    Disaster by privateers, public services to the rescue

    My, but I am glad we live at the top of the hill! Here’s today in Hastings from my point of view… Meandering to Disaster I got just past breakfast time before the power went off. By then, I had noted that, the garden now being completely water-logged, the side path had become a river […]

    kaygreen10

    January 16, 2023
    activism, Hastings, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized
    Hastings Borough Council, Southern Water
  • A message to Helena Dollimore from a former Labour voter

    A message to Helena Dollimore from a former Labour voter

    Dear Helena Dollimore, Judging by your canvassing and emails to the members and supporters of Hastings and Rye Labour Party, you are concerned about the fate of our NHS. I haven’t seen you at any of the local trade union rallies, nor have I seen a coherent response from you to our concerns about your […]

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    January 13, 2023
    activism, Election, Hastings, Labour, Politics, Uncategorized
    Hastings and Rye Labour Party, Helena Dollimore, Wes Streeting, Yvette Cooper
  • In which someone handed me a mic while I was feeling quite cross

    In which someone handed me a mic while I was feeling quite cross

    This is the story of our NHS and me. I’m telling it because it’s also the story of our NHS and you, unless you are very, very rich… in which case I hope you will read this, too… I’m surviving. Like most people, I can’t see the result of any of my life’s work in […]

    kaygreen10

    January 11, 2023
    activism, NHS, Politics, Uncategorized
    FBU, GMB, HTUC, Unite
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