Respite by Wayne Dean-Richards I watch an episode of the original Star Trek TV series, followed immediately by an episode ofWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? followed... Continue reading
Nick Moss reviews two new books from Smokestack: The Dogs, by Michael Stewart, and Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Michael Stewart’s The Dogs... Continue reading
My Liverpool home by Ruth Aylett Made by a funnel-shaped Mersey whose bottlenecked tides scouredthe sand that did for Chester;made by blood money lives of the enslaved,... Continue reading
The poetry world hates poor poets. Discuss if you’ve ever been told your poem has been accepted for publication (hurrah!) but there’s no fee (how do I... Continue reading
The current implosion at RTÉ is not merely a short-term issue of corporate governance and public accountability. Its provenance goes a long way back in the history... Continue reading
Hollywood writers and actors are on strike, the first time both unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960. It’s thrown the industry into... Continue reading
Business ontology was described by Mark Fisher: “Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that... Continue reading
Whippoorwills and Welding Rods by Fred Voss When I first started in a machine shopI didn’t even know how t use a file“Didn’t anyone teach you how... Continue reading
England and Son is a one-man play written specifically for the political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack). It’s a heartbreaking... Continue reading