Euro 2024 by Steve Pottinger the bees dropping into the poppies in my gardendo not care that Saka’s scored a screamerthat the mood in the Red Lion... Continue reading
Steel Brotherhood by Fred Voss 47 years ago in the steel mill I remembera steelworker picking up 2 steel shanksand knocking them togetherso they rang out in... Continue reading
A Gaza Hunt (after: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen) by Ruth Aylett We’re going on a food huntlet’s hope we find someI’m not... Continue reading
Sunak’s Sorry, Keir’s Ear and the Ghost of John Smith or, 58 and Not Out by David Erdos Would John Smith be pleased? Yes, of course. To... Continue reading
The current horror in Gaza is just the latest in a long line of such horrors. The present incursion is called Operation Swords of Iron. The metallurgical... Continue reading
Jack Clarke interviews filmmakers and UC Davis (California) professors Jesse and Glenda Drew. They explore the working-class origins of country music, as well as its transatlantic influences and... Continue reading
Gaza Bucket and spade, child and sandBucket and spade, and sand The next poem is a response to Forensic Architecture’s work on the murder of Hind... Continue reading
Change by Steven Taylor This time tomorrow, next week or yesterday, at the latest (it’s hard to tell the difference) Sir Keir Starmer will be the new... Continue reading
Pre-election day, this is the perfect antidote to baby-kissing canvassers and interview soundbites. It’s a searingly honest and at times uproariously funny selection of polemical and activist... Continue reading
Spy thrillers about and accounts of East-West spying during the cold war abound, always written from a particular Western political standpoint. Autobiographies relating the stories of former... Continue reading