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Oh no, a MAN lost his job!
Is that the headline that’ll get the attention we need on this issue? The crime…. The consequences… Up until now, it was mostly older women who got ‘switched off’, ‘cancelled’, because of the inconvenient noise trans activists made. Let’s get one thing straight — it’s not unpopular opinions people get cancelled for, nor is it…
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Living with privatized ‘services’
The header pic is a screenshot from Southern Water’s latest self-promoting newsletter, passed to me in the week they managed to leave 31,000 households in Hastings with no water coming out of their taps, in some cases for five days straight. Southern’s incident updates made much of the fact that they set up three ‘water…
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Why we all hate Southern Water
Over the last few years, as utility bills have pushed more and more of us onto the breadline, and increasing numbers are falling over the edge into destitution, Hastings has had numerous problems with both electricity and water supplies. Water is the big issue just now. In my part of town, the taps ran dry…
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Talk of the Village
When when word got around that William Wood had put together a whole story collection inspired by snapshots of life in the village where he lived, some people were a bit worried. “Am I in it?” “You didn’t write about what happened to X, did you?” “Where do you get your ideas from?” — A…
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Let more daylight in
Why are local politicians in Hastings putting their names to a Shon Faye event? What is the “sex doesn’t exist” / “sex doesn’t matter” / “it’s complicated” ideology that Shon Faye promotes? Just how convoluted is this? Let me attempt to put it a coherent sentence… Starting with Judith Butler, it’s a build-up of out-of-context…
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24 hours in the slough of despond
This is a long read, and it’s all about those times when the political gets really, really personal. I hope it’s useful, and hope it reads okay! Rocking and reeling and finding the way home Yesterday was one of those slough of despond days. I’d been on the edge since a sobering experience at a…
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Can you keep a secret in a village?
Many years ago on holiday in Cumbria, author William Wood was enchanted by a village not unlike that portrayed in his new book. “Imagine what it would be like to live here,” he said to Anna, his wife. Neither ever dreamed this dream would come true. William was brought up in the South East and…
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Cameron, Lord of the Manor, bringer of referendum
Header pic: detail from a Peter Brookes cartoon Do you remember those history lessons at school, where we learned about feudalism, and how it was an odd system they had in the UK centuries ago? A world where the people we now call citizens were called ‘serfs’ or ‘peasants’, and they and their work literally…
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Girls with Balls
Yes, I know what you thought this was about, because I thought it too, when I saw Tim Tate’s book sitting on a library shelf but it was his idea of a joke, you see. The book is subtitled ‘The secret history of women’s football’. It’s all about how popular women’s football was during the…
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Persecution, prejudice and propaganda
What do you make of a situation where a UN investigator reads a certain name, and says “out of nowhere, I was overtaken by a host of disparaging thoughts and almost reflexive feelings of rejection”? He says he didn’t even read the email about that person, because he’d been convinced this wasn’t a topic he…
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