Category: media
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From Blairites to sex workers
*** Long Read*** [It’s taken me a few weeks to get around to writing this. It’s one of the articles I drafted out when I was thinking about dropping my FB account. There was absolutely no doubt it was giving me problems but, as the horror that is the Israel / Palestine story dominated even…
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What are you laughing at?
I could tell a tale of a catastrophic accident at the printers, where sixty grandsworth of gargantuan printing machine is fouled up by someone feeding Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity into one end and Helen Joyce’s TRANS into the other, and turning the feed up to max. But that would be to entirely miss the point.…
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash
Writers confront the occupation edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman It’s hard to imagine what military occupation is like, if you’ve never had the misfortune to experience it. You try, and you’re never sure you’ve got there. It’s why I’ve been reading this collection put together in conjunction with Breaking the Silence, an organization…
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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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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.…
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I never watch telly, but…
Okay, I watched Gender Wars last night. The world has, over the last couple of years, become aware of a problem that’s been developing for over 20 years. I’ve been up to my eyes in it for around 5 of those years, and feel I know the issues all too well, but so many people…
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Is party politics beyond redemption?
When even the best Labour councillors are hamstrung by a dysfunctional Party and Yellow is yet another shade of Blue — then you find Greens are not necessarily good for you… I joined a proudly socialist CLP in 2016, when we all saw the Party moving to the left. I was Vice-Chair in the 2017…
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Ithaka: the disaster that slipped past you
I watched Ithaka last night. I hardly ever watch telly, and like many people these days, when I watch a film, I’m generally doing at least two other things at the same time. Himself watched it too. We sat side-by-side, and watched in silence, and in the two interruptions for adverts (it was on ITV)…
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The biggest lie of all
Like many former Labour Party people, I went to see The Big Lie last weekend. It had already had two public showings in my town, and this was the third. I didn’t go to the first one because – well, I was a CLP officer when all this happened. I knew all too well what…
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Dear Labour Party, thank you!
Honestly, I never thought I’d need to write another “Dear Labour Party” blog and if I did, I certainly didn’t expect it to be a “thank you” but really, no-one has done as much to help publicize the disgraceful way the party “suits” spiked the Corbyn movement than the current Labour administration – first by…
Kay Green 