Category: activism
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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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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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Sisters getting organised
Back in 2016, the day Labour MPs got together to try and force Corbyn out of his leadership role, the campaign group Momentum rallied thousands to gather at Parliament Square to demand that the Party ‘Keep Corbyn’. The sheer weight of numbers successfully cowed those MPs. As far as I know, it was the last…
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Today I helped to destroy our planet
I’m sorry. It’s just the way the day went. It was gone 7pm, and I needed to be back home, having bought two pillows. It was Morrison’s or nothing, and all they had that I could afford were microfibre bottles – I mean pillows. Those ones made out of ‘recycled’ plastic bottles. They boast about…
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Wishing there was something you could do about the Labour Party?
I suffer from NADA (Not Another Damned Acronym) Syndrome, which is probably why it took me a while to notice, and get curious about, OCISA. When you find out it stands for “Organise Corbyn Inspired Socialist Alliance” you’ll probably do what I did – roll your eyes sadly and move on – but if an…
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Don’t blame the teachers – or the kids – or the parents
Finally, the UK is waking up to the fact that something’s going badly wrong in our schools. As the media volley the kid-who-identified-as-a-cat back and forth, some saying it’s a myth, others saying it’s happening all over the country, people are finally realising we have a problem, and beginning to understand what that problem is.…
Kay Green 