Category: Politics
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Are you going through the motions?
Why do so many organisations have policies their members don’t agree with?
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Brexit debates for the old, the sick and the poor
We are not a nation of Leavers and Remainers – we are people who have the same problems and the same needs – Jeremy Corbyn, Hastings, January 2019
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Generating Unnecessary Heat
I went to watch the HBC cabinet meeting tonight (7th Jan, 2019) because everyone’s been up in arms in recent weeks over an apparently outrageous decision by our council to build large solar arrays on beautiful bits of the countryside around our town.
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What I learned from the cat
I’m not a cat person or a dog person. I like animals in general, but what happens to them when they’re around people, when they are “pets”?
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Books are your friends, even when they seem to lead you into trouble
Expanding on the ‘ten beloved books’ game on Facebook
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No news from anywhere
Remember the days when bookshops did not expect to be held personally responsible for, or assumed to be in agreement with, every line of every book in their shop?
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Sexuality and Synchronicity in Salop
Having spent over a year thrashing around in the gender wars and a weekend of glorious feminist goings on at Filia 2018, I suppose it’s not surprising that Human Aggression grabbed my eye on a book stall when I finally got myself off on holiday but Storr’s book did present me with A Big Surprise.
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It could have been me
One woman’s story: it’s been a year since Maria McLachlan was attacked. This guest post by Paula Boulton is an example of the journey many of us have been on in the last 12 months.
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Silverhill is the Centre
I grew up in Silverhill. My first jobs, my first teen friends, the first pub I snuck into on the grounds that I was nearly old enough, were all in Silverhill, five minutes walk from home.
Kay Green 