Tag: Politics
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How stupid are they?
The debate is everywhere — in the newspapers, on telly, in the pub and round the dinner table — not so much whether assisted dying is a good idea as how on earth did team Starmer manage to handle it so badly? The question I hear again and again in debates over what our MPs…
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An entirely selfish request
(A request from me that is, not Richard Medhurst, who is merely asking that random police forces could please stop arresting him and nicking his kit.) It’s like this: I’ve been reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. It’s the size of a brick, but not really the kind of brick you’d take…
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Hastings – How do we take back our town?
This week, a citizen who happened to be a councillor happened to be at an assemblies planning meeting I went to. She informed me that our borough council is doomed. ‘It’s done and dusted,’ she said. The last couple of years have been a rollercoaster of first-priority issues for anyone even remotely involved in politics.…
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Are we doing democracy?
The EU referendum was my first big dilemma after I’d got myself involved in Party politics. At very short notice, David Cameron was asking us for a vote on a complex topic most of us didn’t know much about, and most politicians responded with diatribes about how badly wrong other politicians were, with simplistic catch-phrases…
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Oldham, Rigby and Musk – how far right is too far?
James Esses is one of many whose careers and/or education were severely impacted by the campaign of harassment initiated by gender ideologists over the last decade or so, when LGBTQ+ demands for trans ‘self-ID’ clashed with single-sex services and child safeguarding practice. Like many of those who were given a hard time, James reacted superbly…
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Debate is unpleasant?
Well, it can certainly be challenging. Ever since FB started religiously removing anything telling that I tried to contribute to the worldwide effort to stop a genocide, I’ve been wondering what exactly these community standards are that I apparently keep going against. I read everything I could find and nowhere did I see anything that…
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Message from the margins
I read ‘Apology’ from Another Angry Voice’ today, because I have a desktop covered in blogs I started writing in the last few weeks and lost faith in along the way, and it set me wondering — whatever the personal circumstances around it — just how many lefty bloggers must be embroiled in doubts and…
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Keep and Eye on Cooper
Those of us who were chased out of the Labour Party so Starmer and Co would not be troubled by any vestiges of socialism or any variety of that “better, kinder politics” Corbyn offered have no illusions about the foul culture of Westminster. We see team Starmer, bank accounts sloshing with hedge-fund donors’ money, nevertheless…
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Bombs, poverty and toilets
At an academy school in the UK in the 21st century They have anti-bullying toilets – wide halls opening onto the main corridor with toilet cubicles down each side and rows of dirty sinks back-to-back in the centre. Originally, they were boys-side and girls-side – so that if you, for example, needed to rinse something…
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The old stories are the best
When a good author gets hold of a classic theme, like Antigone for example, and applies it to an important current topic like what happens to Muslim families when politicians are trading on hatred and fear, the result is likely to be a gripping read. That’s why although Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire is a story…
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