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Resolutions for 2024: What the “United Nations” can’t do, we must
I put my head out of the door in the morning on Boxing Day, and the world seemed quite quiet – fresh, and undisturbed. I stepped outside and found my street a little damp, a little scruffy, but still there. I walked down to the local shops which were not only still there but lit…
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From Blairites to sex workers
*** Long Read*** [It’s taken me a few weeks to get around to writing this. It’s one of the articles I drafted out when I was thinking about dropping my FB account. There was absolutely no doubt it was giving me problems but, as the horror that is the Israel / Palestine story dominated even…
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Yay! Local politics just got really interesting again
Hastings has joined the growing roll of councils where politics is still alive. We’ve just developed a rebel indie group. My former socialist Labour colleagues have all been screaming at our remaining socialist councillors to step up and help the growing support for #Ceasefire in Gaza … well — I don’t know how many took…
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From Assange to AI
You forget the year, you forget the order of events, some names escape you but certain experiences stay with you, hard and bright and real, and inform everything you do for the rest of your life. Like being a part of a gathering after dark in Parliament Square, a gathering called ‘Occupy Democracy’ – hearing…
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I’d like to apply for the Helen Thomas Award, please
I don’t mind if people think it’s a bit off. I think they should rename it the Emperor’s New Clothes Award. (If you’re of a sensitive nature, you should probably read the last bit first, the bit headed ‘naturally’ and work your way up to reading the whole thing.) Why isn’t anti-Palestinianism a thing people…
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What do we do about Them?
Every step of the way we’re shocked, horrified, looking around wildly for ways to stop it. Aching for the children of Gaza, we want to say we can’t believe humans could do this to other humans but, as we’re constantly reminded, the Holocaust happened. Other extensive mass killings have happened since. Humans wound up sufficiently…
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Discord, doubt and division
I started a thread on my Facebook page the other day to grab the attention of anyone I’ve still not made alternative links with. I said I’ve had enough of being messed about by social media. After a few exchanges and various emails, it was clear that most of my friends thought I should swap…
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They may not exist but they keep producing good work
In the month that the Scottish courts finally went so far down the rabbit hole they’ve succeeded in convincing themselves that women don’t exist as a material entity, the tabloid press have reached the point where most people are aware that something rather silly is going on but most have yet to realize the gravity…
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A land of remembering and forgetting
“For in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country … Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of…
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Twits, cops and sisters
Leading to: What can I say about politicians? Reflections Last night, I ended up drinking hot chocolate in a Wetherspoons in Bexhill at umph oclock in the morning and found myself flipping through a magazine – gosh look, Spoons have their own magazine! It said that Spoons inform themselves about what people think by listening…
Kay Green 