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‘afab’ doesn’t mean female
There’s a change in the world that we need more people to understand. Most journalists don’t investigate anything (there are one or two exceptions. A shout out to you, if you are one of them, reading this). What they do is see what’s trending in social media today, grab a photo or two that have…
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A million birds, two books, one life
Imagine you’ve been swept up into a high-flying flock of birds – a flock as numerous as a gathering of every swirl of starlings ever seen on a winter’s night. Imagine flocks of every species spiralling into one; every colour, every aspect and temperament that birds can display flickering around you as you swoop and…
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Things! I love things!
There we were, all furrowed brows, walking back from a council meeting, and she said, ‘don’t you ever write about nice things? Like, the Library of Things now has a badge-maker.’ She showed me her bag, now well decorated with home-made badges. I had forgotten Hastings had a Library of Things, and anyway was bemused…
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Why would anyone want to be a councillor?
I decided to go to a Borough Council meeting last night. Walking back afterwards with a member of Hastings Jews for Justice, who’d come along to find out what happened to the latest attempt at a ceasefire motion for Gaza, I said I’d be writing about what happened that evening and she asked me if…
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Assembling on the Green
At my gran’s house when I was a kid, getting to know the neighbours was something that mainly happened on the village green. We’d all gather there on Fridays, waiting for the fish-and-chip van, on Morris Dancing days, and for all sorts of other reasons so it’s strange that I’ve lived where I am for…
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Were our kids ever so badly served?
There were always hucksters selling colourful rubbish. For all my life, there have been ‘successful’, big businesses selling stuff to teenagers. Now, under the cover of the internet, kids are being sold dangerous things in the name of authenticity – just how can it be that you have to buy things in order to ‘be…
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Mysterious holes in history
“Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire There are gaps…
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This strategy must be questioned
Well that saved me a bit of bother! I had been planning on spending this morning putting together a piece about how worried we should be about what happened in Clacton – not because a certain person finally made it into parliament (although I agree that’s a shameful thing) but because it was so obviously…
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Incredibly detailed election analysis
No, please, don’t do any more election analysis! There were one or two points worth noting – this one, for example… That Starmer could call Corbyn a failure in 2019 when he got over twelve million votes, and then claim a phenomenal success on nine million in 2024 demonstrates at a stroke that most of…
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Hastings: election prospects and what comes next…
Well they arrived en masse today. Couldn’t see the doormat. So, time for a round-up. We know most of us can’t get what we actually want this election, Labour will probably win on a third of the vote — of those who bother to vote — but here’s my take on the choices in Hastings,…
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Kay Green 