The Twelve Days of Christmas On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me A Rees-Mogg up a gum tree. On the second day of...

On reading Born in Blackness when sitting on the sofa in Stroud Some insights developed from reading Born in Blackness, Africa, Africans...

You called on Christmas Eve afternoon, Carrying an unwrapped parcel, A gift brought from memory lane: David Dangerfield’s dad’s football...

Enough is Enough ‘Enough is Enough!’ Don’t think about semantics, axioms Tautologies and self-evident truths, When you read the phrase,...

RMT Picket Line Gloucester 18.8.22 We initially numbered thirteen or so outside the station, Not so much a last supper at lunchtime, As a...

The Next Station is Solidarity I got up early and got the bus, To join the ASLEF Picket Line, At Gloucester, 30 July 2022: It can be...

A Ghost Pub Pilgrimage through Stroud and the Five Valleys Raising funds for the Trussell Trust in September Walk and/or bicycle your...

TUC Demonstration 2022 ‘We Demand Better’ The ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ is a misnomer – It’s a Crisis of Capitalism, Or rather, a constant...

So, there was Charles with his HQ at Oxford (Having been turfed out of London at Turnham Green), And if he were to retake London, Then...

I’ve thought a fair bit about public executions, Visited the remaining Newgate wall, At Amen Court just by St Paul’s Cathedral, For a...

London Pubs Radical History Walk Prologue: ‘And when King George’s poll Shall in the basket roll, Let mercy then control The guillotine!’...