Category: media
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Emergency! First aid instructions within
Our NHS has nearly gone. The destruction, which started long ago now, is nearly complete. It’ll take a general election to save it but there’s something we have to do first, and we need to be doing it now…
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The secret the rich are desperate to keep
Why are rich business people, most of the Tory Party, and those on the affluent right of all the other parties engaged in such a vicious battle to stop you understanding the new economics?
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Don’t shout at me about Assange
We don’t trust the media on issues we know about, because we are equipped to see the lies and the smears – and yet we tend to believe them on issues we don’t know so much about.
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Our lousy politicians
There could have been some real politics tonight – it could have made a difference, but these amateurs missed an opportunity.
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They Shall Not Pass
A review of the showing of Nae Parasan in Hastings, and the debates that followed
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On reviewing a book I haven’t read
Well I’ve never done this before. The book is Citizen Clem by John Bew. The pic at the top of this article is from the Ken Loach film, Spirit of ’45. When you’ve read this book review, if you’re interested in all the talk of Jeremy Corbyn being like (or not like) Clement Attlee, I…
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Robert Tressell didn’t have Broadband
So, my mobile phone went squiffy and a couple of days later the phone-lines went down, leaving me the choice of the sort-of functional computers at the children’s library or life off-line. The worst thing was, after a few days of it, the temptation to try and get news from mainstream TV.
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The mass suicide of newspapers
In recent months, the Guardian online has stolen an idea from a much-loved blog site and started asking readers to forgo the price of a cup of coffee in order to donate money to the hard-pressed publication. Now, this is fair enough coming from Scriptonite, run as it is by one (unpaid) person. The Guardian,…
Kay Green 