Author: Kay Green
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How to use all that anger wisely
I went to a really interesting talk that a lot of people didn’t want me to go to last month. It was laid on by the local Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Apparently, even some members of their own organization had their doubts about it. It’s because the speaker was David Miller, who seems to have the…
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All human life
All human life on the planet is born of woman – Adrienne Rich That quote introduces the editor’s column in the latest edition of The Radical Notion which I intended to lose myself in, but people just kept lending me books, and suggesting I read books, some of which were immediately irresistible and so the…
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What this government wants
Our town has a tradition that we know goes back 500 years, but it probably goes back way longer than that. The same tradition that so many coastal towns, especially small-boat fishing towns have. When people are lost at sea, we gather on the beach to send them a final salute, to just stand still,…
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Reaching across #NoDebate
Notes for the sex-and-gender debate I am going to write this as though it were a letter to someone who thinks of themself as ‘a trans ally’ or perhaps a trans rights activist. I know such a person is highly unlikely to read my blog, because they think their opponents are ‘anti-trans’, and because I…
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Labour candidate’s letter to Hastings and Rye
A leaflet from Labour’s candidate for Hastings and Rye arrived at my house yesterday. It was an interesting read, and it asks us to tell the candidate what we think. Here goes… I too am very keenly aware that we need a change of government. That’s why I joined the Labour Party and worked daily…
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What do puberty blockers and statins have in common?
The book Why We Eat (Too Much) is three years old now, but there’s a recent edition with an added chapter about COVID. The book tells how the author, Andrew Jenkinson, a surgeon who, after working in a bariatric clinic (specializing in last-ditch treatments for obesity), decided that our medical world doesn’t know enough about…
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Battles for the moral high ground
(by fair means or foul) My life ran to sublime chaos last week. I was determined not to read all the Strike books – it’s not just that they’re huge, it’s that they are huge and they are compulsive page-turners, so they guarantee you a week at least of putting your keys in the fridge…
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The woman in white
An addition to my occasional series in which I have fun reviewing old books — in this case because I’ve realised that for me, and anyone else who’s discovered real feminism or anti-racism in recent years, it’s well worth looking again at books you read years ago – it’s amazing how they change, in the…
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Behaviour problems
The photo on the left is real. The one on the right is a photo-shop fantasy – but you already knew that, didn’t you. How did you know that? Things that can’t be said: Not so long ago, Starmer was asked if it’s true that only women have a cervix. His answer was that he…
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Tribalism
In the run up to the EU referendum, most of our (at that time enormous) pool of Labour Party activists failed to step up and join the campaigning. I found myself working with people from other parties, or from none, who came out to have those street conversations. The conversations were mostly a waste of…
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