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Of Musk and Money
***long read for the weekend*** The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. Nor is the friend of your friend necessarily on the same page as you, and just to make things even more complex, your friends and comrades just might not agree with you… There’s been a noticeable change in the prevailing winds…
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Talking to council candidates
(Interim comments) on the options for my ward in Hastings There are, according to the council nominations list, five candidates for my ward in the May 5th council elections. Like many people, I’ve lost faith in party politics so I decided (also like many people) to make my own list of questions to ask candidates…
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“Calm down, dear!”
We have been told, over and over, that the women’s sex-based rights campaign needs to be more nuanced, more polite, and more sympathetic to those opposing sex-based rights. We have been told we should use the language and the parameters of debate those who oppose us dictate. We have been told we should listen to…
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It’s a legal issue
“Why are you obsessed with trans people?” I must have been asked this a hundred times in the last five years or so – usually by the same few people – I don’t think they ever listen to the answer, but here it is anyway: for most of the last five years, I’ve been saying…
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Book signing at Thaxted
What is the best way of launching a new biography in Covid-19 times? As 26 March 2022 would have been the birthday of Isobel Holst (born in 1876), singing in the Dulwich Choral Society concert on that day, with a programme featuring works by her husband Gustav and daughter Imogen, as well as by their…
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Where is Dennis?
Elon Musk, freedom of speech and – the battle of the billionaires? I went along to a zoom about freedom of speech during lockdown. It was hosted by one of the organisations the Labour Party has now banned for being too free with their opinions. I thought the debate would be short and the result…
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Help! They’re getting away!
I posted this on Facebook earlier, and I had this feeling there was something I’d forgotten… … in the comments, someone mentioned the ‘dead cat’ strategy – you know, what do you do when a meeting’s not going the way you want? You throw a dead cat on the table, and everyone’s so shocked, and…
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Questions for council candidates?
Yes, women are asking candidates about sex. I do rather worry that unscrupulous politicians (like Boris Johnson) will just say whatever they think the women want to hear, whilst those who’ve been bullied will say absolutely nothing, whatever their views. It doesn’t need to be complicated though. If you’re a candidate and receive ‘the questions’…
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Left in the Middle with You
It has been a very wearing experience being a woman doing battle for the Corbyn movement in Labour, and then a woman doing battle with the remainder of the left in Labour after Corbyn. (Yes I had to stop and read that sentence back, too.) This is an article about solidarity In the Corbyn years…
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Prepare to support your trans comrades
***long read*** No, I am not saying be ‘a trans ally’. That’s identity-politics nonsense, it’s being partisan, it’s like joining a football supporters’ club – but the thing is, the wheels really have come off Stonewall’s #NoDebate train in their self-ID/queer theory/gender-ideology campaign, and it’s time to re-assess the situation. It’s a real shame it…
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Kay Green 