Month: August 2022

IN-WORK poverty. Should that even be a thing? When I started work many, many decades ago it was simply assumed that once you left school or university you got a…

Which Side Are You On? is a great song about class struggle. It came out of a miners’ strike in Kentucky during the Depression. It’s an easy question. On one side…

The Sixty Second Scribe takes a look at the topic that’s got twitter’s knickers in a twist this week, as our delightful government decide to vote down an amendment requiring…

IT reflects the times we live in that disabled people are stigmatised and dehumanised in society. Ableist language is used in everyday life, and even I’ve been guilty of failing…

No Room At The Inn, a poem by Tanweer Dar Between the bombs and the bullets The endless misery and despair Brought by foreign hands To these forsaken lands And the…

Lula the bear and Simba the lion Image courtesy of People.com Pen Farthing’s battle with the state to win safe passage for his animals is not unlike the story of “The…

Being a parent can be rough; this week alone I’ve faced homework deadlines, a sickness bug, multiple tantrums, a nasty smash on the head (their head not mine), I’ve been…

Editor’s introductory note Ai Weiwei has said recently in an interview published by the i newspaper that he lost his home from the day he was born. “Home never existed…

Well I last wrote from my garden in April. So what is happening now and how have my suggestions worked out?  Our potatoes have provided an ongoing harvest, with each bucket yielding enough…

In fact, it would not be hyperbolic to suggest that every minor detail of human behaviour – from aesthetic preference to modus operandi – can be predetermined based on an analysis of…