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What is urban camouflage for?
Try standing in the mall on a busy Saturday in urban combat gear. Your friends will spot you from a mile off, and mall security will be following you around from the moment you arrive. Urban combat gear looks the way it does because it’s designed to camouflage the wearer against rubble. That’s because the…
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I agree with Nick
I said I wasn’t going to tell anyone how to vote this time around and I’m really not – but I’ve just been to the HIP HOT Hastings Hustings, and it was a really good one. Thank you, HIP thank you, HOT. You can watch the whole thing here, or read my summary below… There…
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Just Stop Obfusticating
Last time I saw Stonehenge I was in the modern world. Quite glad of the almost permanent slowing of through-traffic, which infuriates the ‘get there yesterday’ people, and gives everyone else the chance to take a look at the stones in passing. We discussed it a bit, sitting on a picnic bench on the concrete…
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***Emergency call out***
Our NHS is on its knees. Parts of it are now so embroiled in profiteers’ contracts, or tied up in debts as a result of past “public private partnerships” that politicians are able to get away with saying reinstatement is impossible. Difficult it may be, but reinstatement is vital. People are already dying, and suffering…
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I’m stonkingly angry — with nice people
It’s hard to explain how angry I am today and, even if I manage that, it’s harder still to explain why the people who’ve made me angriest aren’t those who keep accusing me of all manner of insulting things, it’s the nice people – yes, quite possibly you, dear reader. It’s like this… In my…
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Party politics could be our biggest problem
I’ve used the header pic here, and the rosette collection pic below, several times before. They come from a night we in Hastings called “Rock the Vote”. It was 2017, and Red and Green activists, with a token presence from the local Lib Dem candidate, and a lot of people with no strong party affiliation,…
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I don’t care who wins the election in my town
Nevertheless, this is a song of hope… What shall I call the introduction to this essay – “me and politics – a potted history”? I know many other people have been on similar journeys to mine, so I can do it in a couple of paragraphs, and I ask you to forgive it, because it’s…
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July 4th: Independents’ Day?
Will it be Independents’ Day? Or Green day? Or Galloway day? Or hold-your-nose-and-vote-Labour day? It has to be Get the Tories Out Day. Some people are determined to vote Labour, and are saying we all need to get behind Starmer to get the Tories out. You won’t change those people, and that’s most likely what…
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The Crime of the Century
There used to be a shop called Supertramp in Robertson Street (the second most shoppingy street in our town centre). It was gorgeous. I was a bright-eyed teen, eager to get to the independent-with-money-in-your-pocket stage of growing up. It was my persistent inner vision of shops like Supertramp, full of records and posters and books…
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Hurty feelz
My town has just experienced a stinking rotten council campaign in which the combined forces of the Labour and Green and Tory campaigns seemed to focus on a visceral desire to discredit a sitting candidate, a woman rejected by Labour, who went on to do a couple of useful years as a member of an…
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