Fred Voss, the worker-poet from Long Beach, California, has sent us the poem below, with the following message: Here’s a poem I wrote this morning, I hope you... Continue reading
the last ex-pat in Costa Del Sol turns his thoughts homeward with apologies to Leonard Cohen by Mark Cassidy, with image above by Martin Gollan Come, my... Continue reading
John Wight presents an extract from his new book, Gaza: This Bleeding Land, which tells the story of this prolonged tragedy through the eyes of two rival combatants.... Continue reading
Brett Gregory interviews Palestinian screenwriter/director, Muayad Alayan, in Jerusalem about his latest film. BG: So where are you right now? MA: I’m in Jerusalem. BG: So obviously... Continue reading
Nick Moss reviews Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, at the Tate Modern, London, to 20 October 2024. Image above: Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau – Johannisstrasse from a... Continue reading
Jim Aitken reviews The Orgreave Stations by William Hershaw, illustrated by Les McConnell, some of whose images in the book accompany this review ‘The Orgreave Stations’ , published... Continue reading
the drone by Martin Hayes first it came in the idea of a big balloonthe way the wind could pick it upmove it across the battlefieldbefore its... Continue reading
Sometimes, documentaries work better than fiction. This is certainly the case with Sergei Loznitsa’s new film, The Invasion. Loznista was born in Belarus, grew up in Ukraine,... Continue reading
Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily? Join a union! – TUC Sinking in the rain by Stuart McFarlane I wonder, now, if Rishimight rue the day,... Continue reading
Germany’s minister of state for culture, the senior Green politician Claudia Roth, one of the almost exclusively West German-born government officials, voiced her surprise at a recent... Continue reading