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What is urban camouflage for?
Try standing in the mall on a busy Saturday in urban combat gear. Your friends will spot you from a mile off, and mall security will be following you around from the moment you arrive. Urban combat gear looks the way it does because it’s designed to camouflage the wearer against rubble. That’s because the…
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I agree with Nick
I said I wasn’t going to tell anyone how to vote this time around and I’m really not – but I’ve just been to the HIP HOT Hastings Hustings, and it was a really good one. Thank you, HIP thank you, HOT. You can watch the whole thing here, or read my summary below… There…
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Please read on…
…and it’ll be a Labour government that does it. The Tories are dead in the water. Don’t WORRY about THEM. You don’t HAVE to vote Labour to get the Tories out. Look for electable independents and support them, so we don’t end up with an NHS-selling Labour government AND A RIGHT WING OPPOSITION. Please click…
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Just Stop Obfusticating
Last time I saw Stonehenge I was in the modern world. Quite glad of the almost permanent slowing of through-traffic, which infuriates the ‘get there yesterday’ people, and gives everyone else the chance to take a look at the stones in passing. We discussed it a bit, sitting on a picnic bench on the concrete…
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Chairs are the best social media
(Thanks to Lynne, Sue and Felix for the photos) How do you carry a big bag of tricks (board markers and suchlike) and two plastic lawn chairs a mile through a crowded High Street to the seafront? Two belts, that’s how. Threaded through the backs of the chairs so you can swing them onto your…
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***Emergency call out***
Our NHS is on its knees. Parts of it are now so embroiled in profiteers’ contracts, or tied up in debts as a result of past “public private partnerships” that politicians are able to get away with saying reinstatement is impossible. Difficult it may be, but reinstatement is vital. People are already dying, and suffering…
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I’m stonkingly angry — with nice people
It’s hard to explain how angry I am today and, even if I manage that, it’s harder still to explain why the people who’ve made me angriest aren’t those who keep accusing me of all manner of insulting things, it’s the nice people – yes, quite possibly you, dear reader. It’s like this… In my…
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A manifesto for the people
This is the best manifesto I’ve seen so far. Want to play guess the party…? Palestine: Solidarity with the Palestinian people — stop funding and arming Israel’s genocide, prosecute the war criminals and recognise the Palestinian State. Austerity: End austerity and properly fund local and national public services by taxing the rich and big business.…
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Party politics could be our biggest problem
I’ve used the header pic here, and the rosette collection pic below, several times before. They come from a night we in Hastings called “Rock the Vote”. It was 2017, and Red and Green activists, with a token presence from the local Lib Dem candidate, and a lot of people with no strong party affiliation,…
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I don’t care who wins the election in my town
Nevertheless, this is a song of hope… What shall I call the introduction to this essay – “me and politics – a potted history”? I know many other people have been on similar journeys to mine, so I can do it in a couple of paragraphs, and I ask you to forgive it, because it’s…
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Kay Green 