Although I visit my local library far less frequently than I once did, instead much preferring to own all the books I read and fortunate enough to be able to afford to do so, I absolutely love them. They are priceless, noble, magnificent and, in my opinion, as essential to the well-being, development and happiness [...]
Archive for the ‘CULTURE’ Category
Libraries Are Churches…
Posted: 13th April 2012 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURE, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRSTags: Austerity, Books, Coalition, Knowledge, Libraries, Power
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Never Again
Posted: 3rd November 2011 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURE, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRSTags: Armistice Day, Peace, Poppies, Remembrance Day, War
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You parade those poppies with unthinking zeal Knowing nothing of how we feel We, the unseen and untouched Who bought their lies and paid so much We, the dead, are always here And we awake this time, every year To watch with sadness and dismay The flowers placed, where we lay And still the lies [...]
The Sun Always Shines On TV
Posted: 8th October 2011 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURETags: Bedlam, Jeremy Kyle, Marx, TV, X Factor
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Not if you’re a victim, sorry; ‘guest’, on the Jeremy Kyle Show, it doesn’t. Or one of the thousands who audition for the X Factor. If there is a more loathsome and repellent individual on TV than the sneering, sanctimonious and judgemental Mr Kyle, I’ve yet to make their acquaintance. How watching some nasty, smug-faced [...]
Facebook : The Rules
Posted: 16th July 2011 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURE, LIFETags: Daily Mail, Facebook, Music, The Beatles
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Funny old game this Facebook malarkey, isn’t it? Social networking, and all the gubbins that goes with it, seems to have an unwritten but rigid set of rules and a peculiar etiquette. Foolishly, I suppose, I continue to make the mistake of interacting with people on Facebook as I would in real life. I speak [...]
Bad : Bono, Live Aid & The Death Of Innocence
Posted: 10th July 2011 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURE, MUSIC, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRSTags: 1985, Bono, Live Aid, Miners' Strike, Thatcher, The '80s, U2
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I was watching some old Live Aid footage, recently. Specifically, U2’s set from the Wembley leg of the jamboree. For the benefit of younger readers, Live Aid was a charity event put together by Bob Geldof. Its aim was to deliver aid and relief to the hordes of starving Ethiopians. Featuring just about everyone who [...]
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This started life as a set of lyrics that never really made the grade. The band I was with went tits up before I’d finished the music and the chorus never really worked anyway. Went back to it a while after our spectacular demise and after some hacking, slashing and re-jigging, it seemed to work better as a [...]
Tommy’s Got A Gun
Posted: 31st May 2011 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURE, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRSTags: Orgreave, Poetry, Saltley Gate, The Miners' Strike
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Tommy Smith turned fifty-two, the day they shut his pit, Emphysema with his pay-off, the fuse had just been lit. From the heady days of Saltley Gate and Orgreave in ’84, Tommy Smith had done it all and then gone back for more. The cave-ins and the danger, Tommy took them his stride, A Wife, [...]
Bah Bah Whitesheep
Posted: 14th April 2011 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURE, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRSTags: Bah Bah Whitesheep, Lies, Muslims, Racists, The Daily Mail
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There are many things that piss me off. In fact, every day the list gets longer. This should come as no surprise. After all, there’s a lot to get angry about. Iraq, Afghanistan, Melanie Philips, Council Tax, the smoking ban, teenage thugs, The Be*tles, text ‘language’, 4X4 drivers and idiots that see your pair of [...]