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What I did on my holidays
There’s no such thing as a part-time activist when you have a predaTory government in power. We set out for one of the most beautiful and peaceful parts of the country we could think of for our holidays, and within ten minutes of our arrival, we were outside the Town Hall, helping to defend the…
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Everything is fine, nothing to see here!
“Do what you can” “Choose your battles” I have heard that too much lately, and usually as advice to women to leave certain contentious issues alone. It’s not working. What it’s doing (oooh call Prevent!) is pushing large numbers of women to the margins of culture and society. No, I am not exaggerating. Imagine…. Anorexia…
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Who or what is coming home?
If football ‘comes home’, I have a question or two. I think I have watched about two ‘proper’ football matches in my life. I really don’t do international level sport-as-a-spectator stuff. So I’m a bit worried about how you go about writing a blog about football. It’s like this – it’s clear ‘football’ has changed.…
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How to be patriotic
I spent this morning at work in my garden. A very, very British thing to do, weekend gardening. I spent this afternoon listening to Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Burgon talking about patriotism and national security. How quickly we forget what it was like when the good guys were getting to do all the big political…
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Telanon
You don’t just not need the mainstream media – you need to liberate yourself from it. I focus here on one newspaper and one TV channel because they tend to be the last ones people give up – the ‘best of a bad bunch’, as it were. Like many people (including you, probably, if you’re…
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8 days mourning
Very well, you are right. No more cheeky comments from me. Yes, we should observe eight days of mourning. DAY 1 Mourn for the ones who, in Mr Johnson’s words, have lost loved ones ‘sooner than we might have wished’ to COVID-19. DAY 2 Mourn for the ones who have died – old and young,…
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You know schools, right?
Sorry for the bar room tone of the title, but it seems to me to match the level of thinking we have been getting from our government. I have huge sympathy with the people who have been agitating all along to keep/get the schools open. I have huge sympathy with the people who want the…
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No ditch deep enough
As the UK pulls into position as a world-leader in COVID deaths, as the NHS, the legal system and the economy fall into chaos, as the Home Office scrabbles around trying to retrieve the latest batch of lost files, our PR-dependent government works day and night to keep all media voices and spaces filled with…
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