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Steel Brotherhood

8 July 2024 / 396

Steel Brotherhood by Fred Voss 47 years ago in the steel mill I remembera steelworker picking up 2 steel shanksand knocking them togetherso they rang out in... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

A Gaza Hunt

8 July 2024 / 344

A Gaza Hunt (after: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen) by Ruth Aylett We’re going on a food huntlet’s hope we find someI’m not... Continue reading

Ruth Aylett

Poetry

Sunak’s Sorry, Keir’s Ear and the Ghost of John Smith

7 July 2024 / 408

Sunak’s Sorry, Keir’s Ear and the Ghost of John Smith or, 58 and Not Out by David Erdos Would John Smith be pleased? Yes, of course. To... Continue reading

David Erdos

Fiction

Where We Go, Others Will Follow: Review of ‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight

6 July 2024 / 448

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

Jim Aitken

Music

Open Country: Unveiling the Working-Class Heartbeat of American Country Music

6 July 2024 / 630

Jack Clarke interviews filmmakers and UC Davis (California) professors Jesse and Glenda Drew. They explore the working-class origins of country music, as well as its transatlantic influences and... Continue reading

Jack Clarke

Poetry

Two poems on Gaza

6 July 2024 / 338

Gaza Bucket and spade, child and sandBucket and spade, and sand The next poem is a response to Forensic Architecture’s work on the murder of Hind... Continue reading

Mike Huett

Poetry

Change

4 July 2024 / 329

Change by Steven Taylor This time tomorrow, next week or yesterday, at the latest (it’s hard to tell the difference) Sir Keir Starmer will be the new... Continue reading

Steven Taylor

Poetry

Read before voting! A review of ‘Convulsions, 2021-4: a Trusstercluck’

3 July 2024 / 410

Pre-election day, this is the perfect antidote to baby-kissing canvassers and interview soundbites. It’s a searingly honest and at times uproariously funny selection of polemical and activist... Continue reading

Rebecca Lowe

Eating & Drinking

As Soon as this Pub Closes: Beer and the Election

3 July 2024 / 487

Jeremy Corbyn is a lifelong abstainer from drink. Nevertheless, he has always shown interest in protecting pubs in his constituency, and so repaired with his campaign to... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Books

Turning Points

2 July 2024 / 385

What makes people change their mind and their behaviour? It happens all the time, often in small but significant ways. In his first collection of short stories,... Continue reading

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