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Weekly Briefing

10 April 2024 / 321

Weekly Briefing by Owen Gallagher Starving children trudge to schoolwhile I serve tea to his Majestyand the Prime Minister. The King urges his PM to try his... Continue reading

Owen Gallagher

Poetry

Ghazal: no surviving family by Janet Hatherley It’s a new acronym, the medic says,WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family. The three-year-old in her rescuer’s arms, chatters, glances... Continue reading

Janet Hatherley

Fiction

Dark Stories for Dark Times: The 2024 Crime Novel

9 April 2024 / 568

This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon, the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest in the world, in celebrating its 20th... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

Two poems on the genocide in Gaza

8 April 2024 / 370

93n0c1d3 by Michal Lowkain a friend from my youthis a zionisthe loves buildingidf modelsincluding bulldozers the originals are used to destroy palestinian homes and hopes and lives... Continue reading

Michal Lowkain

Poetry

‘Bondage’ and ‘Captivity’: Two poems by Dan Melling, introduced by Fran Lock

6 April 2024 / 384

Introduction by Fran Lock Please read the poems below. In Bondage we enter a scene reminiscent of agrarian indentured labour, somewhere (to my mind anyway) in the long... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Dar Al-Shifa

5 April 2024 / 446

Dar Al-Shifa by Nick Moss ‘Genocide enablers: Gaza and the corporate media’ Like a war scripted by Asimov on crystal methSquads of quadcopter drones Shooting children in... Continue reading

Nick Moss

Poetry

Say Goodnight to the Taoiseach

4 April 2024 / 385

Say Goodnight to the Taoiseach by Declan Geraghty Varadkar is gone goodbye Varadkar we wont miss you you left us so little yet took so much then... Continue reading

Declan Geraghty

Poetry

Byron and the “Satanic School”

4 April 2024 / 542

George Gordon Lord Byron was born in London on 22nd January 1788, and died 100 years ago, on 19th April, 1824. His father, an officer, died when... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

TV, internet and other media

George Galloway MP: Mainstream Media’s Latest Sacrificial Lamb

4 April 2024 / 364

Dr. Matt Alford writes about the media campaign against George Galloway In early March, the late night UK comedy show, ‘The Last Leg’, responded to Respect leader... Continue reading

Matt Alford

TV, internet and other media

‘This Town’: Trite, tropey, bloodless, racist guff

3 April 2024 / 376

Fran Lock gives the thumbs-down to This Town. Image above: Bardon Quinn (Ben Rose), Gregory Williams (Jordan Bolger), Dante Williams (Levi Brown) (Image: BBC/Banijay Rights/Kudos) So far there’s... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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