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For the many
What I’d do is draw up a list of the main policy pledges from the 2019 manifesto — you know, the one that drew on the then Labour Party’s then policy forums — the one with all the really popular policy options in it, like British Rail, the People’s Post Office, and really saving the…
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The most evil people in the world?
“Why did they kill the children? Even the most savage beast in the jungle isn’t that brutal.” Go on, guess the country, guess the year. It’s not Palestine and it’s not 2025. (Five book recommendations and a musing — well, it’s been raining out there!) I read The Kite Runner a few years ago, and…
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A marriage made in…?
Today I saw the announcement that Skwawkbox (which I use a lot, to read all the bits that get left out of mainstream media stories) and The Canary (which I dropped because they appeared to be way too sold on gender ideology) are uniting in order to unite the left. I really want to know…
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The big row in Hastings (round two)
So, let me see if I can get this right. Hastings Women’s Voice, who wouldn’t let the Women’s Rights Network have a stall at their last do because WRN stand up for women’s rights (Women’s Voice think people who stand up for women’s rights are anti-abortion) are standing up for Queers for Palestine because Hastings…
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Which women’s Voices?
We heard the voices of a group called Women’s Voice in Hastings soon after the Judicial Review came out. I am writing this to anyone in Women’s Voice Hastings who still listens to ‘all women’, and to reassure the many women Women’s Voice do not speak for that people who support women’s rights are not…
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Nobody here is innocent
I wrote elsewhere about the weekend I spent at Winchester Writers’ Conference, way back in – oh I don’t know, the early years of the 21st century. It was great – Terry Prachett was the guest speaker, and brought a jazz band along. Carol-Ann Duffy and Michael Morpurgo were there doing signings. I went to…
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The great big row in Hastings
(well, in a few local social media groups, anyway) On August 12th 2025, Hastings’ local, volunteer-run community newspaper included a feature by the local Women’s Rights Network that set out the views of the women’s rights campaign following the Judicial Review of UK Equality law. Lots of (virtual) shouting occurred. The two contesting views are…
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Two out of three ain’t bad, Zara Sultana, but we need all three
Like the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been so happy to see the New Left Party project get rolling, I read NLR’s interview with Zara Sultana with keen interest. Has she got what it takes to build on what the Corbyn movement in the Labour Party did a few years ago? There are so…
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Everybody knows
This is not a good time to get an old Leonard Cohen song stuck in your head but for better or worse, that is just what I have got. It was published in 1988, and even then it was a frustrating experience listening to it – I mean, everybody knows – everybody knew back then,…
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Out Promenading with Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi
Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi had a sponsored walk along the seafront a week or two back, and had a bit of bother from some of those people who don’t understand why we defend Palestine (it’s because settler-colonialism is a particularly violent form of illegal occupation and in Palestine, it’s escalated to genocide.) So, to…
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Kay Green 