Category: Uncategorized

• Poets – three weeks to go!

  

  Closing dates and news about poetry, flash fiction and short story comps

  Kay Green

  June 8, 2020

  book shops, Earlyworks Press, flash fiction, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized

  Earlyworks Press, Flash Fiction Competition, Poetry Competition, Short Story Competition

• The old school

  

  I saw my old school on Derelict UK

  Kay Green

  May 31, 2020

  activism, economics, Hastings, Politics, Uncategorized

  academisation, Hastings Academy Trust, Hastings High School, Helenswood, school grounds

• Extreme blog post

  

  What we’re all gradually realising…

  Kay Green

  May 26, 2020

  activism, Corbyn, economics, Housing, media, Politics, Uncategorized, women

  Acorn, Arundhati Roy, Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Extremism, Jeremy Corbyn, Laura Pidcock, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Pragna Patel, XR

• My post-lockdown manifesto

  

  What do we change, what do we scrap – and what *can* we do?

  Kay Green

  May 22, 2020

  activism, economics, Hastings, Housing, Labour, media, NHS, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized

  Boris Johnson, Covid-19, Don’t Leave Organise, environment, herd immunity, NHS testing, post lockdown, social control, social distancing, Stay alert, Stop the War, the new normal, the search for a vaccine

• My friends my friends don’t ask me….

  

  … what the fighting all was for

  Kay Green

  May 12, 2020

  activism, Corbyn, economics, Election, Hastings, Labour, Politics, Uncategorized

  2019 election, Climate Crisis, easing lockdown, emplyment rights, Nightingale Hospital, social distancing, Stay alert, Stay home

• If…

  

  Thoughts for VE Day

  Kay Green

  May 8, 2020

  activism, economics, Hastings, Housing, Labour, media, NHS, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized

  Acorn, Don’t Leave Organise, Harry Lesley Smith, Harry Patch, Julian Assange, key workers, Lockdown, May Day, Richard Branson, Tescoes, TUC, VE day

• Farewell to Caron Freeborn

  A tribute by Mandy Pannett

  Kay Green

  April 28, 2020

  Book reviews, Poetry, Uncategorized, women

  Caron Freeborn, Georges Perec is my hero, Mandy Pannett

• The Mystery of the Magic Money Tree and the Pension Pot

  

  Or – who nicked our retirement, and how did they do it?

  Kay Green

  April 26, 2020

  activism, economics, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized, women

  back-to-sixty, kitchen sink economics, magic money tree, Margaret Thatcher, Pensions, Richard Branson, Silver army, WASPIs

• Time to shop local!

  

  Have you explored what’s on offer closer to home?

  Kay Green

  April 21, 2020

  book shops, economics, Hastings, Uncategorized

  Covid-19, Hastings Borough Council, Hastings shops, Lockdown, Queens Road, Shop local

• Words from before the world went quiet

  

  Here comes the new anthology!

  Kay Green

  April 20, 2020

  Book reviews, book shops, Circaidy Gregory Press, Earlyworks Press, flash fiction, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized

  AKS Shaw, Alan Kennedy, Bethany Ridley-Duff, Brian Charlton, Bruce Harris, Catherin Westwell, Cecile Bol, Cedrick Fox-Kirk, Christopher M James, David Mathews, Dominic James, George Cassidy Payne, Gillian Brown, Janet H Swinney, John H Moody, Kate Twitchin, Lisa Reily, Mandy Pannett, Mike Wade, Paula Balfe, Philip Thomas, R D Gardner, Roger Elkin, Roland Miles, Sadie Thompson, Sally V Pearson, Steve May, This Rome drwons slowly, Tony Noon