Voting for myself and my husband This is a second go at the same prompt, only shortly after the first. However, on that occasion, the prompt question failed to appear in the blog (see it here). It is a kind of follow-up to that last posting, and another, that deal with being the Green candiate for … More Voting Green for myself and my husband
Describe one positive change you have made in your life I suppose a large part of my life previously has been committed to politics, having joined the Labour Party for the first time in my teens but I suppose that my politics may have faded in my life after I left the Party. I did … More Putting my head above the parapet again, if only for a gesture: ‘a GREEN thought in a GREEN shade’.
What is a Paper Candidate? The definition in Wikipedia is sufficient (see it as this link), though I balk at accepting the alternative name for it given there – a ‘no-hope candidate’. In becoming a paper candidate, I have no hope to win a seat but the act itself seems an expression of massive and … More Why be a paper-candidate? And why The Green Party!
Charles Dyer’s play, later a film, The Rattle f a Simple Man tells the story of a Northern mill worker who goes to London to find out if he is up to the job of bringing charismatic success into his life. It is success as a lover he seeks and hence that is a big … More The Rattle Of A Simple Man: or resetting a jelly that has already liquefied.
The White Heat of WES or the STREETING of the Blair Witch Project Two days ago Wes Streeting outlined the approach the Starmer government will take to implementing its key pledge to voters – the relaunch of the project called The National Health Service, although it is yet to be seen how clear are the … More The ‘White Heat’ of WES or the STREETING of the ‘Blair Witch Project’.
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