Category: activism
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They were not criminals
Most people have never liked war much and the vast majority of us have never liked war crimes at all. Some people — quite a lot of people, actually — will go to quite a lot of work to prevent war crimes, if they can see a way. A few years ago, I wrote about…
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What would you do?
When you carry the Homeland in your heart and travel the world with it, you become its ambassador wherever you go, telling its story, transporting its concerns and spreading its culture. – Amjad Rfaie If that sounds to you like the antidote to genocide, you’re thinking the way I am but Amjad has a more…
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The Gish gallop
This is the 3rd in my ‘time savers’ series, for activists who are horrified to see the same hollow arguments of the gender ideology cult doing the rounds again. Thanks to JH for drawing my attention to this one. As always seems to happen, an example turned up on a local page and exasperated a…
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A plague on both your houses
AirBnB and Amazon – which one do you reckon is doing the most harm to the world? Or, as I am feeling today, which one would you least want to touch with a barge-pole? Towards the end of last year, I spent several months trying to have a conversation with AirBnB about their alleged platforming…
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Many a mickle…
This is the second of the occasional ‘timesavers’ series I promised I’d write because after the Supreme Court ruling clarifying the categories of protected characteristics in the 2010 Equality Act, all the old myths were going around again and, like many women I know, I didn’t really want have to constantly repeat all the same…
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Politicians are the aggressors. Peoples are the peacemakers
The Freedom Flotilla is on the move, and this time the eyes of the world are on them, and a massive march to Gaza is heading the same way. This is how it always works – politicians treat the world like a chess board. They plan and action the wars, the occupations, the oppression and…
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The ageist, sexist woke v nasty old Billionairesses
Disclaimer first: I believe unequivocally that any government with its people’s interests at heart would run its finances in such a way that it would be impossible to become ‘super rich’. That said, two statistics stick in my mind. Number One: J K Rowling is, as far as I know, the only billionaire who’s ever…
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Reassurance For Helena Dollimore MP
Okay, I’m sorry – it’s a joke. Apparently, Ms Dollimore was very upset by the ‘WANTED’ poster that’s been posted around the town, the one that reads WANTED: a straight answer from Helena Dollimore so I thought I’d give her a bit of reassurance after the style of Dennis Skinner’s famous retraction. (You remember –…
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The night something broke
How did we get here? yes, corruption, yes, attacks on Corbyn, yes, failures by Corbyn — and the theft of the Labour Party but most of those tragic conversations on the left are leaving something out. Something huge. Here’s a flashback… Standing in the foyer at the 2019 Labour Party Women’s Conference in Telford, talking…
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Over to you men!
***Guest post by Paula Boulton*** Over to you now men! We women are exhausted. We’re handing over the baton to you. Here’s to broadening the bandwidth of manhood to include those who present as female. After all, they are your brothers and fathers and sons and uncles too! And can we now acknowledge that those…
Kay Green 