Civilisations, a current television project, stimulates responses
April 22, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Civilisation is the culture of cities, of permanent settlements. These demand social organisation to administer to the needs of citizens
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SAPPHO’S MOON
April 7, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A poem by Geoffrey Heptonstall
A Writer’s Place
March 2, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts It was a masterpiece of evasion. He was asked, as other writers were, to comment on the needs of publishers to seek out work of merit that might not be commercially viable
We’ll Always Have Paris
February 4, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Reflections on May 1968
Knowing Who We Are
December 10, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What is happening is real enough. Finding the causes of this undeniable reality is problematic. Yet more problematic is finding an acceptable way of articulating what I see
After the Euphoria
November 11, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts A weak government whose core values are misguided by nostalgia for a lost empire
Not Feeling But Falling
October 13, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
With extraordinary candour Theresa May has admitted that the case for the free market is not the given she believed it to be
1945
August 28, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
1945 is a sacred year in Labour mythology
How Much Is A Job Worth?
July 30, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There was a time when organized labour was widely and regularly accused of greed and social irresponsibility when campaigning for more equitable wages. Today we see fortunes bestowed on the managers of capital without anything like the same measure of censure.
And Where is Glastonbury?
July 5, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The hope is that we wake up to something within our grasp at last.