What I like about Jim Aitken’s poems is the way they can surprise us by travelling at speed from A to B, and sometimes a lot further.... Continue reading
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Echoing the ArchIn memory of Desmond Tutu (1931 – 2021) by David Betteridge He was portrayed as a dancing man,and one given to laughter,but he marched as... Continue reading
Tidings by David Betteridge For Ken Robson, shepherd, of Stanhope Farm in Tweeddale, with whom the author worked two lambing seasons, in 1964 and 1965. In his... Continue reading
To celebrate his 79th birthday, David Betteridge writes about swords, sickles and class struggle I Have a slow look at the drawing shown above. Is it not... Continue reading
David Betteridge writes about the poem ‘History’ What interests me about the existence of archives is that you enter the past which is as it were in... Continue reading
David Betteridge writes critically and creatively about the artwork above, Nature writing, Bertolt Brecht, and eco-communism. The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount... Continue reading
In the year of the CPB centenary, David Betteridge remembers Maurice Levitas, stalwart of the CPGB and a veteran of Cable St. and the Spanish Civil War... Continue reading
David Betteridge takes us along Glasgow’s Byres Road, enjoying several works of public art by the late Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December, 2019, the day after his... Continue reading
David Betteridge notes how Remembrance Sunday at least marks the huge cost paid by the enforced many, not the few Watching the ceremony from The Cenotaph on TV... Continue reading
David Betteridge re-tells an old tale, inspired by John Berger, Timothy Neat, and Margaret Bennett, with drawings by Bob Starrett The Cave of Gold by David Betteridge On... Continue reading
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