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No help here, Labour!
A funny thing is happening. I wrote the blog 10 pledges to end the leadership crisis for Labour in 2020. It is not a serious proposition. I just re-worked the advice the ‘leadership’ had just received from the Board of Deputies – ie, reworked it so it was actually honest and fair. I had to…
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What is Your Party really dying of?
With thanks to Chetan Bhatt and Paul Knaggs for some definitions of things that we know but are very good at forgetting to take into account. A very wonderful am dram group presented a rendition of Peter and the Starcatcher in my town last Christmas. Good it was, funny it was, troubling it was, because…
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The borogroves are getting mimsy again
A verdant crown in a mailbox requires a crooked adjustment of every gate in the street. A valuable tug will intend towards the ludicrous but friendly, luxuriant bikes will sink in wandering axiomatic cribs unless nostalgic advice is accepted to put a brake on cautious account control. The supreme bleach face will fetch a good…
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Chomsky – Epstein – gender industry! — shocked?
I’m not. Nor are you, are you? Did you notice that once social media had had a day or two to gossip about the new releases, most thinking people have come round to ‘well, we knew that was how the world worked, nothing’s going to change…’ Honestly, go over to YouTube and watch some old…
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But seriously, folks…
Are you still ‘for the many’? Are you one of the 850,000 who signed up as soon as Jeremy Corbyn declared a new party? Are you one of the (now less than) 50,000 who are still hanging on? Or one of the 4,000 or so who are still engaged enough to join in the endorsements…
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Bolivar circles
There were around 20 of us – we’d come along to this month’s Left in the Cinema in Hastings. We’d just watched The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, to remind ourselves of some of the history of Venezuela. Now, the film was done, and we gathered in a circle to discuss it. We weren’t all…
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What do we need slates for?
As ‘Your Party’ struggles and spats its way to getting started, I’ve read some of the current arguments about this and that slate for Executive Committee elections, and I think this might be a key issue. What are slates for? When loads of us joined the Labour Party to support the Corbyn movement, many of…
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I’d quite like to talk to my doctor…?
Palantir was helpful for people to communicate, until Sauron got hold of it. – Lorenzo Obi Abadinas A nice man from Birmingham or some such place phoned me up and asked me if I wanted him to arrange a shingles vaccination for me at my GP’s surgery. I said ‘yes thanks, I’ve been trying to…
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A shameful day for the English
One of the ironies of any work in publishing and the book trade is that, because your work involves a lot of reading, you’re always at least a decade behind on what ‘everyone’ has read. That’s why, now the book-work is down to a minimum, I like doing my occasional series of ‘reviews of old…
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Did she just drop her final clanger?
aka Trot on, millennial So, the feminists never joined, those with ‘socially conservative views’ jumped ship before conference, and anyone who’s not keen on the SWP or the ‘trans liberation’ agenda were ready to walk by the end of it. But a fair few of us are hanging on, in the hopes of getting an…
Kay Green 