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Curséd Be Boulangism
Set aside all your tired arguments for using cash and relearning the art of stepping outside without a Smartphone. You’re absolutely right, but doesn’t it get a bit boring, arguing for the bleedin’ obvious, on everything from privacy and the NHS to trying to stop a genocide? Take a short break, pop down to the…
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Away with your ‘day after’ talk
Palestine needs help – so does Israel. Whilst Palestinians are doing everything in their power to call for help, and everyone except US and most European politicians are trying to respond, Israelis are also making themselves heard now. Some of the October 7th victims are suing their government and the IDF, there is an Israeli…
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Are you independent enough to stand up for Hastings?
I was a member of the Green Party once. I was an enthusiastic Labour Party officer for a while. I am out of patience with party politics altogether just now – and you know, my opinions haven’t changed much. What is the point of going on supporting an organization because it once had policies you…
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The Battle of the Land
This is the latest result of a favourite pastime of mine. One of the main reasons I still hang onto a library ticket and the habit of walking into actual buildings with actual books in them is the opportunity it gives to meander around and let things you didn’t know you wanted to read catch…
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Who is to blame?
Acquisitive Europeans set the world up as a colonialist enterprise. The worst of them went for the worst form of colonizing – the sort where settlers either destroy or dispossess the indigenous population. People from all over the world went to ‘The New World’ and created the United States by executing a particularly nasty example…
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Israelism: film review and three take-aways
I’m sitting in front of a big screen, crammed with 40 or more others in the back room of a pub. The film starts, and we’re watching one of those brain-melting Trump-style mass rallies, all flashing lights, reverberating electronic drums and streaming flags. Bright-eyed crowds are standing waving their arms, screaming in excitement – but…
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Resolutions for 2024: What the “United Nations” can’t do, we must
I put my head out of the door in the morning on Boxing Day, and the world seemed quite quiet – fresh, and undisturbed. I stepped outside and found my street a little damp, a little scruffy, but still there. I walked down to the local shops which were not only still there but lit…
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From Blairites to sex workers
*** Long Read*** [It’s taken me a few weeks to get around to writing this. It’s one of the articles I drafted out when I was thinking about dropping my FB account. There was absolutely no doubt it was giving me problems but, as the horror that is the Israel / Palestine story dominated even…
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Yay! Local politics just got really interesting again
Hastings has joined the growing roll of councils where politics is still alive. We’ve just developed a rebel indie group. My former socialist Labour colleagues have all been screaming at our remaining socialist councillors to step up and help the growing support for #Ceasefire in Gaza … well — I don’t know how many took…
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What every women’s rights campaigner wants for Christmas
The glorious wave of new feminist books published in this decade has been one of the joys of the women’s rights campaign. For a while, my favourite was Julie Bindel’s Feminism for Women… Oh hang on, before that there was Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women… A lot of people swear by Helen Joyce’s TRANS, but…
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Kay Green 