Author Archives: Natalie Bennett

The Green Party conference

March 28, 2007 – 11:42 pm

Yes, I promised you voluminous live blogging and it never happened. A couple of reasons for that: one a bit of minor constitutional trauma for me personally (but it all sort of worked out in the end). The other excuses included the keeping of the Green Party members’ website up-to-date, organisation of a video camera, running three fringes (unfortunately I had to cancel one), and… well let’s say really I wasn’t slacking.

And thanks very much to everyone who came to my “internal communications in the Green Party” fringe – I was rather expecting to be talking to an empty room, but I had about a dozen participants and some excellent ideas.

For full, fair coverage you should go to The Daily (Maybe); Jim covered the big issue, leadership, here.

And if I can find the energy (on top of everything else I’ve now got the office cold) I’ll try to write a piece for Comment is Free.

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Cheesy? Well maybe

March 28, 2007 – 11:21 pm

No I don’t think I’m cracking up, quite, but I have been watching cheese mature. Makes a nice variation on an old cliche…

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Trying again

March 28, 2007 – 10:24 pm

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Yep, a campaign has begun, again, to bring America at least into the 20th century, by reviving the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Get into the big top…

March 28, 2007 – 10:22 pm

The next Carnival of Feminists (no 35 for those who like to keep score) is coming up fast, on April 4, and I think I can safely predict that on The F-Word, it is going to be a biggie. Now’s a good time to get your nominations in.

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The perfect storm hasn’t broken…

March 27, 2007 – 11:24 pm

… work, house (one sold, one to be bought – soon), Green Party, other work … all a little out of control just now, so there won’t be much substantive blogging here at least for a few days, but I have taken a minute to browse an exploration of the “ugly Australian” traveller. Do you find your accent makes you welcome, or sees you shunned? (I found Crete was the place where it had the most currency, but I am talking of almost two decades ago.)

Otherwise, I’ve been musing on the appropriate collective noun for a group of pizza delivery motorbike riders (a “swarm”, a buzz”?), after seeing a collection outside a shop this afternoon – must have been at least a dozen.

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A perfect storm ends in a whirl of sound

March 22, 2007 – 8:20 am

You might have noticed I haven’t been here as much as usual lately; that’s because I’ve been caught in something of a perfect storm of work and life pressures.

One of these has now at least ended – well until next week, and every week after, when it will be back again, but hopefully much easier later times around – which was the production of the Guardian Weekly’s first podcast – “hear the voices of the Guardian”, as we say. (No complicated technology required – just click the play button just like on a cassette player.)

Some 15 years ago I was doing a bit of work for ABC Radio Tamworth, which involved, among other things, editing reel-to-reel tape with a razor blade. Happily now it is a bit easier, but getting on top of the technology does take a little while…

Now I’m off to the Green Party conference in Swansea – of which, provided the conference WiFi is working, you should hear a lot more.

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