Author: Kay Green
-
Were our kids ever so badly served?
There were always hucksters selling colourful rubbish. For all my life, there have been ‘successful’, big businesses selling stuff to teenagers. Now, under the cover of the internet, kids are being sold dangerous things in the name of authenticity – just how can it be that you have to buy things in order to ‘be…
-
Mysterious holes in history
“Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire There are gaps…
-
This strategy must be questioned
Well that saved me a bit of bother! I had been planning on spending this morning putting together a piece about how worried we should be about what happened in Clacton – not because a certain person finally made it into parliament (although I agree that’s a shameful thing) but because it was so obviously…
-
Incredibly detailed election analysis
No, please, don’t do any more election analysis! There were one or two points worth noting – this one, for example… That Starmer could call Corbyn a failure in 2019 when he got over twelve million votes, and then claim a phenomenal success on nine million in 2024 demonstrates at a stroke that most of…
-
Hastings: election prospects and what comes next…
Well they arrived en masse today. Couldn’t see the doormat. So, time for a round-up. We know most of us can’t get what we actually want this election, Labour will probably win on a third of the vote — of those who bother to vote — but here’s my take on the choices in Hastings,…
-
What is urban camouflage for?
Try standing in the mall on a busy Saturday in urban combat gear. Your friends will spot you from a mile off, and mall security will be following you around from the moment you arrive. Urban combat gear looks the way it does because it’s designed to camouflage the wearer against rubble. That’s because the…
-
I agree with Nick
I said I wasn’t going to tell anyone how to vote this time around and I’m really not – but I’ve just been to the HIP HOT Hastings Hustings, and it was a really good one. Thank you, HIP thank you, HOT. You can watch the whole thing here, or read my summary below… There…
-
Please read on…
…and it’ll be a Labour government that does it. The Tories are dead in the water. Don’t WORRY about THEM. You don’t HAVE to vote Labour to get the Tories out. Look for electable independents and support them, so we don’t end up with an NHS-selling Labour government AND A RIGHT WING OPPOSITION. Please click…
-
Just Stop Obfusticating
Last time I saw Stonehenge I was in the modern world. Quite glad of the almost permanent slowing of through-traffic, which infuriates the ‘get there yesterday’ people, and gives everyone else the chance to take a look at the stones in passing. We discussed it a bit, sitting on a picnic bench on the concrete…
-
Chairs are the best social media
(Thanks to Lynne, Sue and Felix for the photos) How do you carry a big bag of tricks (board markers and suchlike) and two plastic lawn chairs a mile through a crowded High Street to the seafront? Two belts, that’s how. Threaded through the backs of the chairs so you can swing them onto your…
Kay Green 