Ben Harker introduces his new book, The chronology of revolution: Communism, culture, and civil society in 20th century Britain Continue reading
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Jenny Farrell marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune As we mark the 150th anniversary of the French proletariat’s heroic first bid to set up La... Continue reading
The Boy in the Subway by Tony Webb I met my wife for breakfast.Futile negotiationsin the bookshop café at the Dylan Thomas Centre.A peaceful haven amongst books... Continue reading
Camels and Needles by Rebecca Lowe ‘It is easier for a camel to passThrough the eye of a needleThan for a rich man to enter heaven’… ‘Ah,’... Continue reading
Dennis Broe reviews Raymond Chandler: The Man Behind The Mask, by Ken Fuller, and discusses how Chandler and others unmasked the capitalist delusion that was – and is?... Continue reading
Invisible by Pamela Thomas Cheryl’s dog died yesterday, scruffy thing. He made it to fifteen But no-one asked how she was. They never do. So no-one knows... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell introduces Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”, one of the most famous pieces of music for children ever written Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev is among the... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell introduces Maeve Cavanagh and presents one of her poems. Last Easter, we published some poems written by three leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in... Continue reading
Mark Perryman has been reading up on the sport we’ve lost, and what sport might become, as what seems like a never-ending lockdown gradually eases Way back... Continue reading
In May 2020 the award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson set himself the challenge of writing a Lockdown Diary in verse. The result is Plague Songs, a unique cycle of... Continue reading
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