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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
  • How did our country become “Rip off Britain?”

    How did our country become “Rip off Britain?”

    Distractions, distractions We’re so good at distractions. Somehow, there’s always something to stop us thinking about what we need to deal with. Where was our attention, when Jimmy Savile waggled the old eyebrows and said “I’m hiding in plain sight”? Where was our attention when Johnny Rotten warned everyone about him? Where was our attention…

    kaygreen10

    March 25, 2023
    activism, Book reviews, economics, Politics, Uncategorized
    The Big Con
  • Postman Pat and the sweet shop lady

    Postman Pat and the sweet shop lady

    Two treasured memories from my childhood. Where I lived when I was a kid, the sweet shop on the corner was also a Post Office. When I moved to Hastings, I used to use the Post Office counter in the bookshop on the seafront — and I still prefer the one in that little supermarket…

    kaygreen10

    March 24, 2023
    activism, economics, Politics, Uncategorized
    Nick Wallis, Paul Marshall, People's Post, The Great British Post Office Scandal
  • If you’re not a big rally person be a local picket person

    If you’re not a big rally person be a local picket person

    And what to do if you too want to fight back against government-induced austerity but you can’t do either of those things. Thursday and Saturday were both RMT strike days. There are still people working on our railways who are campaigning to reach a basic living wage… …whilst the railway execs continue to get ridiculously…

    kaygreen10

    March 18, 2023
    activism, Politics
    #CostOfLivingCrisis, NEU, RMT
  • On resisting “bubble thinking”

    On resisting “bubble thinking”

    From Gary Lineker through Brexit to women’s rights via Timothy Snyder ***Long read*** Let’s go back in time and give some attention to how we got here, and how we might go about getting to a better place. This is a discussion about a YouTube clip from Channel Four, of Krishnan Guru-Murthy talking to Timothy…

    kaygreen10

    March 14, 2023
    media, Politics, Uncategorized
    Krishnan Guru-Murty, Timothey Snyder
  • Is your bookshop hiding anything from you?

    Is your bookshop hiding anything from you?

    In the last few weeks, Hannah Barnes’ new book, Time to Think has been eagerly awaited. Anxious parents are concerned about schools being told to keep secrets from them, and about what their children are learning about sex and gender on TikTok. In political circles, the existence or otherwise of ‘innate gender identity’ is a…

    kaygreen10

    March 10, 2023
    Book reviews, book shops, Labour, Politics, Uncategorized, women
    GIDS, Hannah Barnes, James Daunt, Tavistock, Time to Think, Waterstones
  • “A dark journey into what ails America”

    “A dark journey into what ails America”

    In his 2022 book The Storm is Here, US-born journalist Luke Mogelson starts out, surrounded by the heavily armed members of various self-instigated militias, talking to a barber who defied lockdown over ‘the right to a haircut’. It’s not entirely clear who is there defending what from whom, although the New World Order, the Russians,…

    kaygreen10

    March 8, 2023
    activism, Book reviews, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized
    Luke Mogelson, The Storm is Here
  • Oh alright, I’ll talk about toilets again

    Oh alright, I’ll talk about toilets again

    For the last five years, I have regularly had people throw that one about “are you going to look up people’s skirts in the loos” at me, and I have regularly had people say to me, “don’t mixed sex toilets solve the problem”. I generally answered – truthfully, that the women’s sex based rights campaign…

    kaygreen10

    March 1, 2023
    media, Politics, women
    Equality Act 2010, Toilets
  • A Radical Review

    A Radical Review

    What I learned from Issue Eight – ‘the disputes edition’ – of The Radical Notion and from reading Maya Forstater’s critique of it Click here for a TRN download link. Click here to buy a paper copy of TRN. Just in case you’re thinking about last summer and saying… Oh, no, please, no! …this, after…

    kaygreen10

    February 25, 2023
    activism, Book reviews, Politics, women
    Jane Clare Jones, Maya Forstater, Sex Matters, The Radical Notion
  • The Jaguar Smile

    The Jaguar Smile

    This is a review of The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie. I read it in 2023 because… From time to time, I like revisiting ‘old’ books, because until I was involved in the book trade, I didn’t know how casually ‘back list’ books are treated, nor how easily they can drop off into the ‘not…

    kaygreen10

    February 22, 2023
    Book reviews, Politics, Uncategorized
    Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile
  • Nicola Sturgeon, Labour & Gender Identity Ideology

    Nicola Sturgeon, Labour & Gender Identity Ideology

    ***Guest post by Ian McNee*** Nicola Sturgeon is not a stupid politician. Arrogant? Maybe. Another centrist oiling the wheels of capitalism (albeit with tartan stripes)?  Definitely. And while there is almost certainly some truth in her claim that holding high public office has taken its toll on her, she could see that the fallout from…

    kaygreen10

    February 18, 2023
    activism, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women
    Ann Henderson, Corbyn, Hannah Barnes, Ian McNee, Momentum, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Nicola Sturgeon
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