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Hastings demands… Nae King!

Journalists and others have been commenting on the lack of interest Hastings has shown in the demise of HBC but, it seems to me that Hastings is only just finding out it’s happening. As we set off up the West Hill on Monday for the first of the two discussions on the topic that Hastings…
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Come to the pre-party party!

The government just isn’t working for us, and now our local council is about to be pulled from under our feet – well, to a great extent, the council wasn’t working for us any more, either but – what’s left for us? A month or so back, we had a big meeting at Winding Street…
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They were not criminals

Most people have never liked war much and the vast majority of us have never liked war crimes at all. Some people — quite a lot of people, actually — will go to quite a lot of work to prevent war crimes, if they can see a way. A few years ago, I wrote about…
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What would you do?

When you carry the Homeland in your heart and travel the world with it, you become its ambassador wherever you go, telling its story, transporting its concerns and spreading its culture. – Amjad Rfaie If that sounds to you like the antidote to genocide, you’re thinking the way I am but Amjad has a more…
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The Gish gallop

This is the 3rd in my ‘time savers’ series, for activists who are horrified to see the same hollow arguments of the gender ideology cult doing the rounds again. Thanks to JH for drawing my attention to this one. As always seems to happen, an example turned up on a local page and exasperated a…
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A plague on both your houses

AirBnB and Amazon – which one do you reckon is doing the most harm to the world? Or, as I am feeling today, which one would you least want to touch with a barge-pole? Towards the end of last year, I spent several months trying to have a conversation with AirBnB about their alleged platforming…
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Unknowers trying to find out

Every now and then my blog loses a bunch of followers, and I look back at the last few articles to see who I’ve offended, and how. Occasionally, someone tells me, then I do a lot of thinking. I don’t get anywhere near everything right but for some reason, that doesn’t bother me the way…
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Letter to my MP regarding an act of piracy

Dear Helena Dollimore, As I am sure you are aware, Israeli forces illegally boarded the Madleen, a British flagged ship, in international waters this weekend, and kidnapped the crew. This is an act of piracy and also illegal obstruction of attempts to provide aid to Gaza. As the individuals concerned were acting as representatives of…
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Many a mickle…

This is the second of the occasional ‘timesavers’ series I promised I’d write because after the Supreme Court ruling clarifying the categories of protected characteristics in the 2010 Equality Act, all the old myths were going around again and, like many women I know, I didn’t really want have to constantly repeat all the same…
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Politicians are the aggressors. Peoples are the peacemakers

The Freedom Flotilla is on the move, and this time the eyes of the world are on them, and a massive march to Gaza is heading the same way. This is how it always works – politicians treat the world like a chess board. They plan and action the wars, the occupations, the oppression and…