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Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer: tough decisions

Tough Decisions

Villanelle: Tough Decisions

Governments must make tough decisions
Sorry choices, hard selections
Daring shares and long divisions

Oasis Liam and Noel

They’re Oasis

THEY’RE OASIS

Their tour’s extensive
Their interviews somewhat defensive
The tickets are rather expensive
But they need more dimes

St George

Patriotism

a guest poem by Vicky Thomas St George is cross. The soldier saint says He’s at a loss To understand these days. You who take his flag And use his name As some kind of brag – He is ashamed.

anti-union laws pamphlet

Anti-union laws bar striking on crucial working-class issues

Published by Free Our Unions A discussion article by Janine Booth, Free Our Unions supporter. Tory leader Rishi Sunak’s line of attack on the Labour government’s unpopular decision to scrap winter fuel payments for most pensioners is to accuse Prime

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If You Should Win

If you get your wayIf the foreigners are kept at bayIf we wind the drawbridge and mine the beachesReach a state of monocultureCreate an all-white social structure Would your wages rise? Or would you find to your surprise your payslip doesn’t grow

neurodiversity

Debating neurodiversity

Janine Booth replies to John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone’s post, Neurodiversity – what exactly does it mean?, on Mad in the UK’s website. Throwing the neurodivergent baby out with the bathwater John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone have contributed an interesting

Middle-aged Kicks live in Portslade

Middle-aged Kicks: download fundraiser for Women’s Aid

Janine Booth parodies the The Undertones’ classic Teenage Kicks (with permission) as Middle-aged Kicks: “I’m getting older, getting older, right – Get middle-aged kicks then an early night”.

Musical accompaniment by Robb Johnson and Ali Gavan. Recorded at Brighton Road Studios, Hassocks. Cover art by J. Roberts.

All proceeds to Women’s Aid to help their work in helping women and children escaping domestic abuse.

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