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From Assange to AI
You forget the year, you forget the order of events, some names escape you but certain experiences stay with you, hard and bright and real, and inform everything you do for the rest of your life. Like being a part of a gathering after dark in Parliament Square, a gathering called ‘Occupy Democracy’ – hearing…
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I’d like to apply for the Helen Thomas Award, please
I don’t mind if people think it’s a bit off. I think they should rename it the Emperor’s New Clothes Award. (If you’re of a sensitive nature, you should probably read the last bit first, the bit headed ‘naturally’ and work your way up to reading the whole thing.) Why isn’t anti-Palestinianism a thing people…
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What are you laughing at?
I could tell a tale of a catastrophic accident at the printers, where sixty grandsworth of gargantuan printing machine is fouled up by someone feeding Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity into one end and Helen Joyce’s TRANS into the other, and turning the feed up to max. But that would be to entirely miss the point.…
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What do we do about Them?
Every step of the way we’re shocked, horrified, looking around wildly for ways to stop it. Aching for the children of Gaza, we want to say we can’t believe humans could do this to other humans but, as we’re constantly reminded, the Holocaust happened. Other extensive mass killings have happened since. Humans wound up sufficiently…
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Discord, doubt and division
I started a thread on my Facebook page the other day to grab the attention of anyone I’ve still not made alternative links with. I said I’ve had enough of being messed about by social media. After a few exchanges and various emails, it was clear that most of my friends thought I should swap…
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They may not exist but they keep producing good work
In the month that the Scottish courts finally went so far down the rabbit hole they’ve succeeded in convincing themselves that women don’t exist as a material entity, the tabloid press have reached the point where most people are aware that something rather silly is going on but most have yet to realize the gravity…
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A land of remembering and forgetting
“For in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country … Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of…
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Twits, cops and sisters
Leading to: What can I say about politicians? Reflections Last night, I ended up drinking hot chocolate in a Wetherspoons in Bexhill at umph oclock in the morning and found myself flipping through a magazine – gosh look, Spoons have their own magazine! It said that Spoons inform themselves about what people think by listening…
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They changed the name, but I still think of them as Twits
I thought there ought to be something out there that’s actually from me today, so here it is: I would like to say thank you to all the people who went on the march in London yesterday to call for a ceasefire. I wasn’t there but if I had been, I would probably have chosen…
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The trouble with conspiracy theories
A tale of peace and renewal Most countries these days wouldn’t shamelessly set about trying to move or destroy an entire population. Genocide is against international law but more importantly, it’s against all of our instincts. Killing, injuring and traumatizing children is against all of our hearts. So we think ‘why, really why?’ It is…
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Kay Green 