Workers, by Peter Kennard By Alan McGuire About a year ago, I was struggling to find a home for my poetry, it felt like most of the... Continue reading
JMW Turner’s Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and the Dying – Typhoon Coming On by Nick Moss 2024, Keir Scammer railed against those populists who were “smashing... Continue reading
The stunt man’s fall, in Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff by Nick Moss A new website will tell the story of Liverpool through the lives of... Continue reading
Jon Baldwin reviews Can Working Class Culture be Knowledge? by Stefan Szczelkun, Routine Art Co., London 2025 Through a discussion of aspects of working-class culture, this book... Continue reading
Martin Hayes reading poetry against an image of Fred Voss by Peter Raynard In the Spring of 2023, I answered a call out for articles for a... Continue reading
The ‘Labour’ Government’s Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working amounts to a cranking up of more Tory-style persecution of the... Continue reading
Bitterly, I was forced to be absent from the Cockpit Theatre swansong event for Smokestack Books last December due to a combination of ill health, stormy weather... Continue reading
The Karls Church Christmas Market in Vienna With European sovereignty under attack from Donald Trump and his national security plunderers, er, advisors, and as Denmark capitulates to... Continue reading
Scott Alsworth reviews Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World, by Marijam Did, Verso, 2024 Can videogames be a force for good in the... Continue reading
by Nick Moss When I began writing poetry in jail, there were a core group of writers who influenced me – Bertolt Brecht, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Pablo... Continue reading