By Steve Pottinger This poem would like to make it clearthat it is here to subvert nothing whatsoever,here to challenge nothing at all, that it wouldnever ever... Continue reading
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Image by Steev Burgess Over the Rainbow On any given morning that the worldslaps hate into its blue selfin a sedated town overlooked by factories,that contain their... Continue reading
Image: Wikimedia MarsOr nuances on a theme in W.H. Auden’s ‘September 1, 1939.’ Minister of war, wherever men have walkedYou have followed –Thermopylae, Austerlitz, Gaza, Ukraine –Ruddy... Continue reading
July 18th 2025 Ribs like tree branches wrack through the undergrowthCarving out a path of spikes and sharpnessThe shoes shred, leave traces of themselves on the shattered... Continue reading
By Chris Norris Three billion up the spout, no less.That’s what it’ll cost the NHSTo fund this deal you’d have us blessSince you’ve the UK tabloid pressSafe... Continue reading
The book is available here Jim Aitken reviews Alan Morrison’s latest book, starting with a comparison between the two main characters in the book and two other... Continue reading
Commons image of Yasser Abu Shabab By Nick Moss War generates inevitablyA quisling soup of gore and cashA huckster slimeThat seeps across each well-drawnHard-foughtLine. A Haw-Haw, a... Continue reading
By Chris Norris Spare us a thought, us ‘terrorists’ still stuckIn this god-awful gaol while those who’ve sentUs down look on and can’t believe their luckAs nobbled... Continue reading
By Jim Aitken Aye, they maun think we’re aw daftcomin’ up here in his kilt an’ tweedjaiket, swannin’ aroun’ as if he ownsthe place. Ah spose he... Continue reading
Image courtesy of King’s College, London by Mike Jenkins Snothin t do with me,Sall blydi overseas,Theyer all Arabs, Muslims anyway. Ow about puttin ower people first,Ow about... Continue reading
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