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An entirely selfish request
(A request from me that is, not Richard Medhurst, who is merely asking that random police forces could please stop arresting him and nicking his kit.) It’s like this: I’ve been reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. It’s the size of a brick, but not really the kind of brick you’d take…
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Hastings – How do we take back our town?
This week, a citizen who happened to be a councillor happened to be at an assemblies planning meeting I went to. She informed me that our borough council is doomed. ‘It’s done and dusted,’ she said. The last couple of years have been a rollercoaster of first-priority issues for anyone even remotely involved in politics.…
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Hastings Genocide Memorial Day
Like many people up and down the country, a group of us gathered in Hastings on Saturday 1st February 2025 in support of Palestine. It was a complex event. First and foremost, we were saying STOP ARMING ISRAEL. But as politicians and the media push us to ‘move on’, just because of an extremely fragile…
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Are we doing democracy?
The EU referendum was my first big dilemma after I’d got myself involved in Party politics. At very short notice, David Cameron was asking us for a vote on a complex topic most of us didn’t know much about, and most politicians responded with diatribes about how badly wrong other politicians were, with simplistic catch-phrases…
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DT stands for delirium tremens
“Delirium primarily involves alterations of attention and is characterized by a fluctuating course, difficulty with concentration, and altered mental status. Tremens refers to the tremors seen in patients with delirium tremens.” Shall I say DT instead of Donald Trump from now on? It happens around the third day a person is deprived of (or chooses…
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Unbearable MPs
Hastings is one of many towns that’s been enduring an MP who can never talk about Palestine without first agonizing over October 7th. No context, no proportionality. It’s hard to see it as anything but callous, wilful ignorance and you know, I really don’t think they have any idea just how much they have destroyed…
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Oldham, Rigby and Musk – how far right is too far?
James Esses is one of many whose careers and/or education were severely impacted by the campaign of harassment initiated by gender ideologists over the last decade or so, when LGBTQ+ demands for trans ‘self-ID’ clashed with single-sex services and child safeguarding practice. Like many of those who were given a hard time, James reacted superbly…
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Hastings: are we about to lose our council?
No, I don’t know either. I know there’s been talk about ‘unitary councils’ for some years, and that Labour has been making plans lately, which some have cynically suggested might enable them to cancel local elections that they are likely to lose. What came as more of a surprise to me, when I happened to…
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12 Radical Notions, 34 meetings and a betrayal
At the end of November 2024, Women’s Place UK officially drew the final curtain. It was logical. The founders set up WPUK because the new-fangled, ill-defined concept of ‘gender identity’ was being mooted as justification for allowing males to self-identify into women’s spaces and services, and the call from some women’s groups for impact assessments,…
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What is your information worth?
Just before Christmas, when I went to check my bank balance, I got one of those annoying ‘do what we want before you do what you want’ dialogue boxes. My bank wanted to ‘confirm my details’. As we all do when inconveniences like that come up, I huffed and muttered a bit – one minute…
Kay Green 