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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 a blog alive. Thank you. Thank you to those who share indie blogs across platforms, or into different groups — not only are you helping…
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The table is a cow
The banner you see above was carried all the way from the US to be defiantly unfurled at a conference in Brighton last October — for the benefit of a group of women who had never, ever claimed rape was legitimate resistance. Bit silly really — how did such a thing occur? Like this: The…
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Requiem for a Woman’s Soul
I’ve been trying since last week to write a blog about the election but so far, it’s a mess. It’s a mess because I keep failing to sleep at bedtime and/or I wake at the very weird hour of four ay em. That’s not, actually, because of the latest horror story to come out of…
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Please don’t make me join the Green Party again
I joined the Green Party briefly, around a decade ago, along with 60 000 others who joined in the same week for the same reason. It was a protest, when Nigel Farage was, as usual, all over the television and his party-of-the-moment had just been granted a party political broadcast slot. When the Greens asked…
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Where is the news?
Header pic: detail from a Guy Smallman photo taken in Lebanon An Israeli missile came out of the sky, without any warning, and plunged straight through the roof of the building, the blast blowing the bodies of residents out of the windows. For those who survived, there’s the option to register online for government compensation…
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Will I see you there?
***This is a long post, a personal account, which I hope will be helpful to those who maybe haven’t been in the thick of the Your Party goings on, but have been worrying about it.*** Let us suppose Jeremy Corbyn’s team are a battle-scarred political family. Let us suppose they had not entirely recovered from…
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A legal duty
I went for a walk on Hastings prom today. I went because I’ve always believed in supporting citizens’ right to protest and, living as I do in the town of the Hammerblow women, I believed, for most of my life, that our country supports a citizen’s right to stand up against violent crime. …but it’s…
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Ordinary politics?
Yesterday (that was 6th April – the nearly-Armageddon day) just like millions of other people, I spent the day trying to earn a crust and thinking that although you can’t live on the state pension, it really can’t come soon enough if I’m to hold my little world together – but also yesterday, the BBC…
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Bookshop to bookshop railway
Or, what I did on my holidays We had booked a week in Settle. The aim was to ride up and down the Settle to Carlisle railway, finding great Yorkshire walks and interesting bookshops and above all, avoiding the internet and all things work and big-media related. We succeeded, and I came home feeling renewed.…
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A truly terrible book
I picked this book up because it’s subtitled Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction, and it got a further punch of urgency from the strapline by Eric Idle, ‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’. I thought it might be about one of the emergencies the great and the…
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