By Jim Aitken Michael Rosen loves words. He loves their sense, their sounds, their layers of meaning and the uses they can be put to. He does... Continue reading
Protest against arming Israel by Steve Pottinger It is 5.26pm on the 2nd of July and Kevin is clocking out for the week.He waits now for a... Continue reading
All images courtesy of the artist By Jack Clarke I arrived in Doncaster on one of those sticky, humid Fridays where everything feels like it’s wearing a... Continue reading
Another interior monologue from Keir Starmer on his suspension of four Labour rebels who voted against the Pathways to Work green paper, Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian... Continue reading
By Paul Francis You’re sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.Our story’s of big business, what it needsand how its operation is win-win.We know that our economy succeedswhen regulation... Continue reading
By Christopher Norris 1 In some ways you lot had it easy;No bolt-holes for the conscience-queasy,Though private motives might look sleazyTo later eyesAnd the tone sound a... Continue reading
Review by Neil Fulwood, editor of the superb website Chainlink There is a technique in poetry, borrowed from Apophatic Theology, called the via negativa, whereby attention is drawn... Continue reading
Published by Penguin Books, 2025 By Jim Aitken ‘They can’t break or occupy my words’ – Mahmoud Darwish We Are Not Numbers by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam... Continue reading
by Alan Morrison The Chancellor sits puffy-eyed on the front benchAs the Prime Minister leans in to his nondescript Script at the despatch box amidst rambunctiousEighteenth century... Continue reading