Culture Matters is seeking poems for a new anthology to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike. We want to celebrate and memorialise the voices... Continue reading
By Paul Gander For all who fought for this country’s freedoms, and allwho continue to campaign peacefully for them Time won’t be kind to them, but silently... Continue reading
By Kevin Patrick McCann Told me how, as a schoolboyBack in 1933, he saw BrownshirtsThreatening his music teacher,Heard him shout defiantly, “To HellWith you and Adolf!” only... Continue reading
By Jim Aitken The clip of him on the Six O’ Clock News dancing,dancing with as much rhythmas the dinosaur he is, has to make usquestion our... Continue reading
By Roger Marheine When shall the qualitative moment reveal itself?The seismographic shift as earth’s plates realign.The great swerve of history, its incandescent flair all consuming, all destroying,... Continue reading
By Anne Enith Cooper Let’s not talk about it. Let’s just notdon’t want to hear about tipping pointsand feedback loops on a Friday. So the corals have... Continue reading
By Martin Hayes some people say that angels don’t existbut I don’t believe in any of their crapthe people are full of itI prefer to believe that... Continue reading
Satellite image of Sudan executions. Image courtesy of Yale School of Public Health -public domain By Nick Moss In ’44 and ’45, the piles of shoes at... Continue reading
Richard Thomas White, born 1899, signed up in 1914, aged 14 By Violet White I will not be remembering youembedded with panoply, poppies and pomp,entrenched in all... Continue reading
The line-up for 16 November 2025 is: Peter Marinker – Peter Marinker is a London-based actor well known forhis work on BBC Radio, his many audio book... Continue reading