A poem to celebrate the humanity and creativity of the Palestinian people that survives, and may yet transcend, the destructive brutality inflicted on them by Israel.

It is almost 50 years to the day since I voted in the general election called by Edward Heath. He thought democracy was under threat from trade union power and…

A poem for the longest night of the year, a year in which darkness seems to have fallen on so many, in the forgotten war Sudan and the oh so…

Many years ago I met two heroes of the American Civil rights Movement, Herb Shapiro and Judy Shapiro. only they never told me! Herb is dead now but I would…

Since Covid has made Staycations a necessity for most of us, why not visit Barrow-in-Furness. We have a unique cultural, historical, archaeological and ecological heritage. But you don’t want to…

KABUL AIRPORT 16 AUGUST 2021“Completing the pre-flight checklist:”Flight controls — CheckedInstruments and radios — CheckedAltimeter — CheckedGyroscope — CheckedFuel gauges — CheckedPropeller — CheckedMagnetos — CheckedFlaps — Checked Unchecked items:…

Compare these two areas of government expenditure. One contributes over £42 billion to the economy and employs nearly 200,000 people. It also directly supports another 260,000 jobs in the UK,…

A few weeks ago Dave Middleton wrote a well researched blog on the crisis in social care, made all the more powerful by the personal story of the difficulties in…

On Fathers Day here is a poem I wrote for my father. I wish I could have written it when he was alive to read it. It is his birthday…

The government is hoping to use the success of the vaccination roll-out against Covid to rewrite the history of the pandemic and exonerate itself from all blame. Labour’s strategy of…