Poem – and sculpture carved from Ye Old Oak ham – by Martin Rowson If… If you could keep your head when all about youWere telling you... Continue reading
By Pauline Sewards The city has one more uneasy sleep to go some businesses have capitulated, planning closureothers quietly assert their right to open as they should.... Continue reading
By Roger Cornish They pulled a wallDown – a while agoThe times they were aChanging The provident manStopped coming onFridaysYou didn’t need money – just a card... Continue reading
By Steven Taylor the weather will kill people this weekbut many of them would have died anywayand we need weather more than peoplewho are vulnerable to changes... Continue reading
By Steve Pottinger Monday: scrolls ragebait from dawn Tuesday: doctors, teachers, experts, who needs em? Wednesday: crows that his mob is a ‘fightback’. Thursday: goodbye medicine, agriculture.... Continue reading
(Notes after reading the judgment in The Secretary of State for the Home Department v Huda Ammori, R (on the application of) Neutral Citation Number [2026] EWCA... Continue reading
By Paul Laughlin This is a political poem. This poem is political. This poem will be collected. This poem has been neglected. This poem is read in... Continue reading
Tasty food sculpture! Hamstarmer by Martin Rowson By Merryn Williams Stand down with dignity, Sir Keith!Don’t let the pain drag on.I’m sure you’ll feel intense reliefonce you... Continue reading
Gliff, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, 288pp, £18.99, is available here By Jenny Farrell The dystopian fiction of imperialism, which began with Jack London’s Iron Heel, has... Continue reading
By Alli Gray Embryonic hate speech wrappedFascist thought in satire’s seedThat poisoned carrier of foul beliefsMalignant spores, polluted memesExtending dark organic reach Create memetic chain reactionProvokeArouse through... Continue reading