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All human life
All human life on the planet is born of woman – Adrienne Rich That quote introduces the editor’s column in the latest edition of The Radical Notion which I intended to lose myself in, but people just kept lending me books, and suggesting I read books, some of which were immediately irresistible and so the…
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Reaching across #NoDebate
Notes for the sex-and-gender debate I am going to write this as though it were a letter to someone who thinks of themself as ‘a trans ally’ or perhaps a trans rights activist. I know such a person is highly unlikely to read my blog, because they think their opponents are ‘anti-trans’, and because I…
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What do puberty blockers and statins have in common?
The book Why We Eat (Too Much) is three years old now, but there’s a recent edition with an added chapter about COVID. The book tells how the author, Andrew Jenkinson, a surgeon who, after working in a bariatric clinic (specializing in last-ditch treatments for obesity), decided that our medical world doesn’t know enough about…
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Battles for the moral high ground
(by fair means or foul) My life ran to sublime chaos last week. I was determined not to read all the Strike books – it’s not just that they’re huge, it’s that they are huge and they are compulsive page-turners, so they guarantee you a week at least of putting your keys in the fridge…
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The woman in white
An addition to my occasional series in which I have fun reviewing old books — in this case because I’ve realised that for me, and anyone else who’s discovered real feminism or anti-racism in recent years, it’s well worth looking again at books you read years ago – it’s amazing how they change, in the…
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Tribalism
In the run up to the EU referendum, most of our (at that time enormous) pool of Labour Party activists failed to step up and join the campaigning. I found myself working with people from other parties, or from none, who came out to have those street conversations. The conversations were mostly a waste of…
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Wishing there was something you could do about the Labour Party?
I suffer from NADA (Not Another Damned Acronym) Syndrome, which is probably why it took me a while to notice, and get curious about, OCISA. When you find out it stands for “Organise Corbyn Inspired Socialist Alliance” you’ll probably do what I did – roll your eyes sadly and move on – but if an…
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You can beat big money at its own game
***UPDATE*** Thanks to REEL NEWS for getting the film out there (no thanks to the festival organisers) I guess it’s too late to run a campaign for people to cancel their tickets to Glastonbury but how about this…? They were scared by the power of this… Click here for a clip of the Big Glastonbury…
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The inevitable end-game of identity politics
It takes a long time for most of us to work out what ‘identity politics’ is, and why it matters. The main reason it’s important is that it can completely blind-side people seeking socialism. It can and does lead them into aggressively supporting what are in effect right wing, individualist ideas. In short, it’s another…
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What do junior doctors deserve?
Junior doctors get what looks to me like a very generous salary when they’ve been working their ***ses orf for about eight years in our desperately overstretched NHS. Just how hard would you work, just how much overtime would you accept, just how much life-or-death responsibility would you bear, in a job that would pay…
Kay Green 