by Alan McCormick I wrote this story during Trump’s first Presidency when things were getting dark and lurching towards a kind of civil war. I originally called... Continue reading
By Dennis Broe As Trump and Musk unleash a new kind of barbarism and open class war on American workers based around the cuts to domestic spending... Continue reading
By Peter Raynard If working class was a currency in poetry, it wouldn’t be worth very much. For the past few years there has been a slow... Continue reading
Demonstration against the invasion of Iraq: courtesy Andrew Wiard Jon Baldwin reviews an exhibition of photography at Turner Contemporary, Margate, until 1st June 2025 Resistance is conceived... Continue reading
There are not many bands that are three-piece. The classic line-up is a drummer with a frontline of vocalist, lead and bass guitarists, or sometimes, as with... Continue reading
by Nick Moss Scout Szofiya Bolton wrote the poems collected here as reflections on the experience of serving a prison sentence, further to attempting to hold up... Continue reading
Produced and presented by The Cockpit Live literature every third Sunday at 5.00pm. The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those... Continue reading
On viewing the AI-generated video Trump Gaza, shared by President Trump on his Truth Social outlet Trump has come to save the dollar.Bucks are king, we hear... Continue reading
by Jim Aitken The Scots word ootlin refers to someone deemed a stranger, an outcast, a despised or neglected member of a family. It is an awful... Continue reading
By Alan McCormick, with Trumpty Dumpty image above by Martin Gollan To be read with extended pauses and endless amounts of self-love Adam is good and it’s... Continue reading