Chronicling The Miners’ Strike: A Little Less Is A Whole Lot more
It’s fair to say I’m a man who holds the odd opinion of a political nature. It’s even been suggested that those opinions may, from time to time, be rather forcefully or strongly-held. Astonishingly, there are even those who further
The Scent of a Woman
She had the strangest arse I’d ever seen. It was like a balloon filled with water. It wasn’t so much the size of the thing; although petite it most certainly wasn’t but, rather, the way it moved. It really did look, for all
Miliband and The Bedroom Tax
Labour party leader, Ed Miliband, speaking in Worcester today, finally pledged his party to the abolition of the hated bedroom tax, should Labour be elected in 2015. The news will be welcomed by hundreds of thousands of the nation’s poorest,
Here In My Pocket…
Been a while so thought I’d better stop by in case any of you are still here. And, judging by the kindly enquiring emails, for which I thank you, it appears you actually are. So what’s new, you ask? Not much, I’m
The Party’s Over: An Open Letter to Owen Jones & The Labour Left
No one, at least no one with even a semi-functioning intelligence, is under any illusions that the Labour party offers any substantive alternative to the Coalition’s unconditional class war; we know all too well exactly what kind of unprincipled, unscrupulous
Catholics, Perverts and Popes
After scrutiny by the magazine’s legal team, a heavily edited version of this piece was originally published by Sabotage Times in March 2013. In the interests of contributing to a much wider debate on the Catholic Church, an institution I strongly believe to
Poor Boy White Boy Blues
I was born a gambler’s son. Yes, indeed; a wanderer and a traveller, too. Always on the road. Always on the run, too, maybe. From the pain, the hardship and the demons. Christ, that man had more than a few.
Annie’s Got A Gun
Guns are specifically designed to kill people. Automatic weapons are specifically designed to kill lots of people. Why would any private citizen need an automatic weapon? What kind of private citizen would want an automatic weapon? More to the point, what
Death Becomes Them
A friend of mine, Clare Allington, recently posed the question, why do we indulge in mawkish displays of faux grief when someone dies, to the exclusion of their more unsavoury traits? After all, a bad person in life is a
Happy Christmas, Prime Minister
The Prime Minister tweeted yesterday, “I’m delighted by the news that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a baby. They will make wonderful parents.” I just bet he is. Christmas come early for Call Me Dave, eh? As
It’s fair to say I’m a man who holds the odd opinion of a political nature. It’s even been suggested that those opinions may, from time to time, be rather forcefully or strongly-held. Astonishingly, there [...]
She had the strangest arse I’d ever seen. It was like a balloon filled with water. It wasn’t so much the size of the thing; although petite it most certainly wasn’t but, rather, the way it moved. It [...]
Labour party leader, Ed Miliband, speaking in Worcester today, finally pledged his party to the abolition of the hated bedroom tax, should Labour be elected in 2015. The news will be welcomed by hundreds of [...]
Been a while so thought I’d better stop by in case any of you are still here. And, judging by the kindly enquiring emails, for which I thank you, it appears you actually are. So what’s new, [...]
No one, at least no one with even a semi-functioning intelligence, is under any illusions that the Labour party offers any substantive alternative to the Coalition’s unconditional class war; we know all too well exactly [...]
After scrutiny by the magazine’s legal team, a heavily edited version of this piece was originally published by Sabotage Times in March 2013. In the interests of contributing to a much wider debate on the Catholic [...]
I was born a gambler’s son. Yes, indeed; a wanderer and a traveller, too. Always on the road. Always on the run, too, maybe. From the pain, the hardship and the demons. Christ, that man [...]
One of the most frustrating things about being a writer is working with editors. Equally, one of the most valuable experiences a scribe can have is to work with editors. The worst of them leave [...]