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
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
By Nick Moss What a surprise to find that of all the front benchShitbreathed turncoat rabble, the one to refuseTo swallow the genocide apologias any longerWould be... Continue reading
by Alan Morrison As Chief Whip Alan Campbell left CabinetOn Tuesday 1st JulyWalking along the sun-pounded pavementOf Downing Street the day of the voteOn the Pathways to... Continue reading
The pyramid of power By Wayne Dean-Richards correct me if I’m wrongbut no police were prosecutedfor fitting up the Birmingham 6. correct me if I’m wrongbut the... Continue reading
Three Doves, by Bob Starrett by David Betteridge A poem taken from the author’s Sapling & Wood,published by Culture Matters, 2024. What, for the common good,can poets... Continue reading