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On burning ambulances
On March 23, 2025, the Israeli military attacked five ambulances, a fire truck, and a United Nations vehicle, killing 15 aid workers. Exactly one year later, someone attacked three Jewish volunteer-run ambulances in Golders Green. No one thought it was a co-incidence, but beyond that, reactions fanned out in a range of ways. It serves…
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Stand up to misogyny
This morning, I asked Shereen Benjamin if I could reproduce a post from her social media for a blog article. Here it is… Edinburgh Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) said this: Yesterday’s demo would not have been possible, or half as much fun, without the amazing Tom and Nathan from @cabaretagainst 🎶 Constantly keeping the…
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Fly a kite, tell a story, read a book…
In February last year, I went to a talk by Dr Zahira Jaser, which focused on what it’s like being a Palestinian woman in the UK lately. One of the issues mentioned was some people’s attitudes to people wearing the keffiyah. These days, people seem to think it means ‘terrorist’. Jaser spoke eloquently about the…
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This article has nothing whatsoever to do with shopping…
…it is a salute to Valerie Coultas and all the other women and men who have hung in there for Your Party, and still hope to build socialism there. Sexism has always been there – where has the socialist understanding of it gone? 1910 When women thrown into prison for marching for women’s rights began…
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The air that we breathe
When Israel bombed Iran last time, I thought – my dentist’s in Iran, visiting her mother. Please don’t kill my dentist! It sounds like a joke when I write it that way, but that’s what normal people do, when a war starts. We think of the people we know, and try to find out if…
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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…
Kay Green 