Scottish PSC demo in Edinburgh. Photo: Gillian Grant By Steve Pottinger this happens/ how there is a moment of doingnothing/ and how another moment follows/ howyou were... Continue reading
By Jim Aitken Michael Rosen loves words. He loves their sense, their sounds, their layers of meaning and the uses they can be put to. He does... Continue reading
Protest against arming Israel by Steve Pottinger It is 5.26pm on the 2nd of July and Kevin is clocking out for the week.He waits now for a... Continue reading
All images courtesy of the artist By Jack Clarke I arrived in Doncaster on one of those sticky, humid Fridays where everything feels like it’s wearing a... Continue reading
Published by Penguin Books, 2025 By Jim Aitken ‘They can’t break or occupy my words’ – Mahmoud Darwish We Are Not Numbers by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam... Continue reading
By Violet White A Prayer on the Historic Occasion of the Proscription as Terrorists –by the LINO Government’s Home Secretary on Weds 2nd July 2025 –of a... Continue reading
Image: Harey Zahav/social media By Maria De Stefano “As you sow so shall you reap.” That ‘s what they say in Gaz-A-Lago, an ancient law of the... Continue reading
The current horror in Gaza is just the latest in a long line of such horrors. The present incursion is called Operation Swords of Iron. The metallurgical... Continue reading
In the closing Winter Lecture for the London Review of Books, Terry Eagleton discusses the origin and uses of culture. Half-way through the piece, Fran Lock and Alan... Continue reading
Naming by Chris Norris Pray tell us, you wise men and scholars all,Pray tell us by what law you take it ill,This usage of what we see... Continue reading