The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: politics
PMs – Here Today….
I’ve lived through the terms of several Prime Ministers, from Harold MacMillan to today’s incumbent. They all leave, mostly unwillingly… I’ve seen PMs come and go And each time it’s been a blow… To them. * Super Mac was taken … Continue reading
How Inalienable Are Our Rights?
Some while ago, pre Covid while in Edinburgh, we passed some EDL (English Defence League, for those readers who haven’t come across them who support a very narrow right wing xenophobic view of what it is to be English) people. … Continue reading
If You Go Down To The Woods Today… #writephoto
If Jerome Corbel needed inspiration, and lately he’d needed a lot his allotment was his go to happy place. But Donald McJohn was a persistent little bugger and when he said, ‘Walk with me’, even suggesting you were worried that … Continue reading
The Real Meaning Of…
As I sit and try and make sense of the conundrum that is Brexit and, of course fail, I realise so many of the words I keep hearing have hidden meanings that might explain some of what is going down … Continue reading
Yes Mr Speaker #flashfiction #humour
Martin Clarke stood in the Speaker’s private office and admired himself in the mirror. He shouldn’t be here, he knew but the open door spoke of temptation. One day soon, he promised himself as he adjusted the ermine collared cloak, … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, flash fiction, humour, miscellany, politics
Tagged creative writing, flash fiction, humour, politics
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Climate Of Opinions #womanatwar #filmreview
There’s a point in the film, Woman At War where the heroine, a formidable Icelandic environmental warrior, Halla, is bombarded by the adverse public opinions that her economic terrorism generates. It’s visceral and hurtful and managed by government spin but … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, politics, review
Tagged climate change, environmental protest, Iceland, woman at war
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Home Thoughts, For Those Of Brexit Bent – After Robert Browning #poem #poetry
Life in the UK for those of us who are convinced Brexit is up there with cheesecloth shirts and thousand island dressing as the worst things to come out of these shores, are trying to remain sanguine, since that’s about the … Continue reading
Posted in poems, poetry, politics
Tagged Home thoughts from abroad, poem, poetry, Robert Browning
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Reasons to be cheerful (really)
Ok so there has been a fair bit of gloom about the year just gone but what better way to put it to bed than a bit of poetry It wouldn’t be much of a stretch To say 2016’s been … Continue reading
Something a little bit different.
Generally I keep away from the great triple trip-ups on this blog: namely politics, religion and whether skinny jeans are fashion items or something to hold your varicose veins in place. But one thing has been bugging me recently and … Continue reading
Bodies, everywhere?
Are you gloomy about Britain? Are you gloomy about this planet of ours? We approach our referendum on our place in Europe and one of the hot potatoes, if not the hottest potato, is immigration. From Europe but also the … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, poems, poetry, politics
Tagged planet earth, poetry, politics, population growth, resources, thought piece. poem
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