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  • Beauty is still dying

    Beauty is still dying

    When I read Sheri S Tepper’s ‘Beauty’ back in the early ‘90s, I thought she had done me an injury. I enjoyed it, but the Ending (not the ending of the book, The Ending) was just too dark. Not fair. I just read it again, here in 2020 and, when I got to the bit…

    Kay Green

    August 27, 2020
    Book reviews, book shops, Uncategorized
    Beauty, Fantasy fiction, Sheri S Tepper
  • In the Absence of Hard Evidence

    In the Absence of Hard Evidence

    In the absence of hard evidence of a divine engineer in the sky, I’d say the patterns in your mind are who you are. This is my thought for the day because it became necessary to clean and decorate the back room, and to do that, it was necessary to move two wallfuls of books,…

    Kay Green

    August 9, 2020
    activism, Book reviews, book shops, Earlyworks Press, Election, flash fiction, media, Poetry, Politics, Short stories, Uncategorized
    David Didau, Hugo Chavez, Narrativium, Terry Pratchett, The Open Veins of Latin America
  • What do Rosie Duffield and J K Rowling have in common?

    What do Rosie Duffield and J K Rowling have in common?

    They’re both well known, one extremely well off and the other at least comfortably secure. They both have ways of making themselves heard, and they also, according to those on the left, have allegiances to the wrong kind of Labour Party members. Duffield and Rowling both recently spoke up about their worries over women’s rights…

    Kay Green

    August 5, 2020
    activism, Labour, Politics, women
    J K Rowling, Labour Party, Rosie Duffield, sex and gender, women’s rights
  • The Problem with Wilful Blindness

    The Problem with Wilful Blindness

    It’s understandable – it’s well-intentioned. It doesn’t work.

    Kay Green

    July 7, 2020
    activism, Book reviews, book shops, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women
    Boot Boys, Dawn Butler, Fascism, JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Owen Jones, Philip Pullman, racism, Reni Eddo-Lodge, sexism
  • Read this, Sir Keir

    Read this, Sir Keir

    Recommend a book to Sir Keir

    Kay Green

    July 3, 2020
    activism, book shops, Labour, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized
    Anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, race, racism, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Sir Keir Starmer
  • Who puts the skill in key jobs?

    Who puts the skill in key jobs?

    Unskilled jobs are a myth created by capitalism to justify poverty wages

    Kay Green

    June 22, 2020
    activism, economics, Hastings, NHS, Politics, Uncategorized
    George Herbert, key workers, Lockdown, skilled work, unskilled work
  • White woman thinking

    White woman thinking

    Learning anti-racism

    Kay Green

    June 20, 2020
    activism, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women
    #metoo, anti-racism resources, Black Lives Matter
  • What’s with all the whitewash?

    What’s with all the whitewash?

    What is Sally-Ann Hart trying to say about racism?

    Kay Green

    June 20, 2020
    activism, Hastings, media, Politics, prejudice
    Black Lives Matter, Churchill, Colston, Hastings and Rye, Sally-Ann Hart MP
  • Poetry competition now closed

    Poetry competition now closed

    Poetry competition deadline extended

    Kay Green

    June 18, 2020
    Circaidy Gregory Press, Earlyworks Press, Poetry, Uncategorized
    Jocelyn Simms, Mandy Pannett, Poetry Competition
  • All Hart and no Information?

    All Hart and no Information?

    Sally-Ann Hart MP still doesn’t understand how the asylum system works

    Kay Green

    June 18, 2020
    economics, Hastings, media, Politics
    Cities of Sanctuary, Hastings, Sally-Ann Hart
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