Kay Green

My post-lockdown manifesto

What do we change, what do we scrap – and what *can* we do?

Kay Green

May 22, 2020

activism, economics, Hastings, Housing, Labour, media, NHS, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized

Boris Johnson, Covid-19, Don’t Leave Organise, environment, herd immunity, NHS testing, post lockdown, social control, social distancing, Stay alert, Stop the War, the new normal, the search for a vaccine
My friends my friends don’t ask me….

… what the fighting all was for

Kay Green

May 12, 2020

activism, Corbyn, economics, Election, Hastings, Labour, Politics, Uncategorized

2019 election, Climate Crisis, easing lockdown, emplyment rights, Nightingale Hospital, social distancing, Stay alert, Stay home
If…

Thoughts for VE Day

Kay Green

May 8, 2020

activism, economics, Hastings, Housing, Labour, media, NHS, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized

Acorn, Don’t Leave Organise, Harry Lesley Smith, Harry Patch, Julian Assange, key workers, Lockdown, May Day, Richard Branson, Tescoes, TUC, VE day
Farewell to Caron Freeborn

A tribute by Mandy Pannett

Kay Green

April 28, 2020

Book reviews, Poetry, Uncategorized, women

Caron Freeborn, Georges Perec is my hero, Mandy Pannett
The Mystery of the Magic Money Tree and the Pension Pot

Or – who nicked our retirement, and how did they do it?

Kay Green

April 26, 2020

activism, economics, Politics, Privatisation, Uncategorized, women

back-to-sixty, kitchen sink economics, magic money tree, Margaret Thatcher, Pensions, Richard Branson, Silver army, WASPIs
Time to shop local!

Have you explored what’s on offer closer to home?

Kay Green

April 21, 2020

book shops, economics, Hastings, Uncategorized

Covid-19, Hastings Borough Council, Hastings shops, Lockdown, Queens Road, Shop local
Words from before the world went quiet

Here comes the new anthology!

Kay Green

April 20, 2020

Book reviews, book shops, Circaidy Gregory Press, Earlyworks Press, flash fiction, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized

AKS Shaw, Alan Kennedy, Bethany Ridley-Duff, Brian Charlton, Bruce Harris, Catherin Westwell, Cecile Bol, Cedrick Fox-Kirk, Christopher M James, David Mathews, Dominic James, George Cassidy Payne, Gillian Brown, Janet H Swinney, John H Moody, Kate Twitchin, Lisa Reily, Mandy Pannett, Mike Wade, Paula Balfe, Philip Thomas, R D Gardner, Roger Elkin, Roland Miles, Sadie Thompson, Sally V Pearson, Steve May, This Rome drwons slowly, Tony Noon
…the rest is silence

Did you know some theatre companies drop the last couple of pages of ‘Hamlet’, because they like this dying comment of Hamlet as the last line?

Kay Green

March 25, 2020

activism, economics, Hastings, Labour, media, Politics, Uncategorized

Corbyn, environment, occupy
I miss, I note, I love…

What’s changed in your world?

Kay Green

March 22, 2020

Politics, Uncategorized

environment, Politics, social distancing, virus
My last word

…because as fast as I use them, people try and make them mean something else.

Kay Green

March 14, 2020

activism, prejudice, Uncategorized, women

Alex Drummond, Debbie Hayton, GRA reform, Labour Women’s Declaration, Linda Bellos, Maya Forstater, sex and gender