Here’s a thing. I have been struggling with overwhelming anger and rage for months. Just fumbling a tea bag can provoke an explosion of inchoate rage. Worst of all, and unsurprisingly, working out why and what it’s all about has been really hard. But, and here’s another thing, the driving desire to know something isContinue reading “Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?”
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SONG OF THE LOWER CLASSES
Text: Ernest Jones (verses 1-3), Bob Davenport (verse 4), Windborne (verses 5-6)Melody by Ian Robb, harmonies by Windborne We plough and sow, we are so low, that we delve in the dirty clay,‘Til we bless the plain with golden grain and the vale with the fragrant hay.Our place we know we are so low, downContinue reading “SONG OF THE LOWER CLASSES”
Shocking Statistics Show 350,000 More Children in Poverty Than Last year
Originally posted on The poor side of life:
According to statistics released today by CPAG (Child Poverty Action Group) 350,000 more children are in poverty in the U.K than last year. This shows that 29% of all children in the UK are growing up below what is regarded as the breadline. In total that’s 4.2…
On resisting “bubble thinking”
Originally posted on Kay Green:
From Gary Lineker through Brexit to women’s rights via Timothy Snyder ***Long read*** Let’s go back in time and give some attention to how we got here, and how we might go about getting to a better place. This is a discussion about a YouTube clip from Channel Four, of…
When the line is crossed.
There’s an expression for when something occurs that causes an uncontrollable response of acute distress. It’s called ‘triggering’, ‘trigger’ and being ‘triggered’ and under certain circumstances you can find yourself in a constant state of acute distress without even knowing the cause. I am in that situation and this is an exploration of my circumstancesContinue reading “When the line is crossed.”
A Gentle Anarchy
Now that I have been barred from the Labour party… Aha ahaha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… oh dear, o dear… I am left with no other place I want to go other than Anarchy. I’ve been here for years, but just needed a Starmer betrayal and kick up the arse to sortContinue reading “A Gentle Anarchy”
Did *you* know about Dinky Gordon?
Originally posted on Kay Green:
***Long read*** Subtle radicalism escapes me — here though, is a salute to them as can do it, and an analysis of the huge myth-busting task feminists still face… I can be a clod-hopper in all these big and passionately fought-over issues. How on earth do you go about being…
It is a lie…
Originally posted on Kay Green:
It is a lie when they tell us we can’t afford our National Health Service any more. The money they are pouring into the pockets of private profiteers, to make up the lack their cuts created is enough to pay our NHS staff and emergency response workers properly. It is…
What we owe Harry
Originally posted on Kay Green:
No, not that Harry … or that one, we owe this Harry… This is an article about how to save our NHS. For some years now, we’ve all seen the issuing of a crime number as a sign that the police don’t have the staff or the funds to actually…
A Call To Men Of The Left
Originally posted on Kay Green:
*** Guest post by Ian McNee*** Women’s Liberation, Identity Politics & Socialism On Saturday 4th February the feminist campaigning organisation Woman’s Place UK are co-hosting their second national conference on women’s liberation with the UCL Women’s Liberation SIG at the Institute for Education, UCL and on the theme: “Education for…
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