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Battles for the moral high ground
(by fair means or foul) My life ran to sublime chaos last week. I was determined not to read all the Strike books – it’s not just that they’re huge, it’s that they are huge and they are compulsive page-turners, so they guarantee you a week at least of putting your keys in the fridge…
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The woman in white
An addition to my occasional series in which I have fun reviewing old books — in this case because I’ve realised that for me, and anyone else who’s discovered real feminism or anti-racism in recent years, it’s well worth looking again at books you read years ago – it’s amazing how they change, in the…
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Behaviour problems
The photo on the left is real. The one on the right is a photo-shop fantasy – but you already knew that, didn’t you. How did you know that? Things that can’t be said: Not so long ago, Starmer was asked if it’s true that only women have a cervix. His answer was that he…
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Tribalism
In the run up to the EU referendum, most of our (at that time enormous) pool of Labour Party activists failed to step up and join the campaigning. I found myself working with people from other parties, or from none, who came out to have those street conversations. The conversations were mostly a waste of…
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Sisters getting organised
Back in 2016, the day Labour MPs got together to try and force Corbyn out of his leadership role, the campaign group Momentum rallied thousands to gather at Parliament Square to demand that the Party ‘Keep Corbyn’. The sheer weight of numbers successfully cowed those MPs. As far as I know, it was the last…
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Feminists and socialists need this book
I knew Hannah Barnes’ Time to Think was an important book. So many people with good brains and good hearts have been worried about what the current fashion for gender ideology is doing to our kids. Reading reviews and articles about the book, I could see Barnes’ investigation into what happened at the Tavistock was…
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Starmer: who knew?
Or perhaps, within the Westminster bubble, the question was ‘who didn’t?’ I’ll post the source details of this quote as soon as someone can comment and tell me who wrote it, and in which year… You don’t have to be Andrew Marr to tell the difference between a Miliband left and a Corbyn left. Andrew…
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Today I helped to destroy our planet
I’m sorry. It’s just the way the day went. It was gone 7pm, and I needed to be back home, having bought two pillows. It was Morrison’s or nothing, and all they had that I could afford were microfibre bottles – I mean pillows. Those ones made out of ‘recycled’ plastic bottles. They boast about…
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Wishing there was something you could do about the Labour Party?
I suffer from NADA (Not Another Damned Acronym) Syndrome, which is probably why it took me a while to notice, and get curious about, OCISA. When you find out it stands for “Organise Corbyn Inspired Socialist Alliance” you’ll probably do what I did – roll your eyes sadly and move on – but if an…
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Don’t blame the teachers – or the kids – or the parents
Finally, the UK is waking up to the fact that something’s going badly wrong in our schools. As the media volley the kid-who-identified-as-a-cat back and forth, some saying it’s a myth, others saying it’s happening all over the country, people are finally realising we have a problem, and beginning to understand what that problem is.…
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