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Nobody here is innocent
I wrote elsewhere about the weekend I spent at Winchester Writers’ Conference, way back in – oh I don’t know, the early years of the 21st century. It was great – Terry Prachett was the guest speaker, and brought a jazz band along. Carol-Ann Duffy and Michael Morpurgo were there doing signings. I went to…
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The great big row in Hastings
(well, in a few local social media groups, anyway) On August 12th 2025, Hastings’ local, volunteer-run community newspaper included a feature by the local Women’s Rights Network that set out the views of the women’s rights campaign following the Judicial Review of UK Equality law. Lots of (virtual) shouting occurred. The two contesting views are…
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Two out of three ain’t bad, Zara Sultana, but we need all three
Like the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been so happy to see the New Left Party project get rolling, I read NLR’s interview with Zara Sultana with keen interest. Has she got what it takes to build on what the Corbyn movement in the Labour Party did a few years ago? There are so…
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Everybody knows
This is not a good time to get an old Leonard Cohen song stuck in your head but for better or worse, that is just what I have got. It was published in 1988, and even then it was a frustrating experience listening to it – I mean, everybody knows – everybody knew back then,…
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A typical summer Saturday in Hastings
Spent the morning digging up brambles in an out-of-control garden in between seeing to the laundry and scanning soc media pics looking out for friends who were amongst those on a very important day out to London – looks as though at least 200 people are going to be VERY late home. Then went into…
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Helena Dollimore sent me another letter
When the Handala was attacked and boarded by Israeli occupation troops, and its crew abducted, I wrote to my MP asking her how the government is supposed to respond to acts of piracy. Just as when the Madleen was attacked, she responded with a letter full of her opinions about Israel / Palestine. Here is…
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Here’s how to help bring down this dreadful government from the safety of your own home
Step one is watching the Handala tracker. Step two is making sure you have the email addresses of your MP and the Foreign Office to hand. Why is this such a powerful opportunity? Because there’s plenty of evidence that Keir Starmer and his associates were seriously put out by our reactions to the attack on…
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Pirates ahoy!
A cry central to the history and spirit of Hastings — I wonder if an understanding of that will outlast the determination of commercial developers to fill the town with those who can afford affordable (and even unaffordable) housing. The Stade and all who sail in her It’s a favourite twist in Hastings history, the…
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Forever black? I don’t think so.
After October 7th 2023, as soon as it became clear that neither our government nor the mainstream media were capable of giving due respect to Arab lives when Israel was in the equation, some of us changed our social media profiles to black, and declared that they would stay that way until our government ceased…
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I’ve never been to a protestival before
It’s fun! This one was everything that traditionally happens at a summer weekend gathering by the sea, but with real, community-level politics. If you walk along to the west end of Hastings seafront, you come to a pleasant, green space but with signs of the demolition of the former bathing pool, now ingeniously turned into…
Kay Green 