The bard pays homage to his two muses: his wife and his football club
Reduced to This
by Andrew Nickson
Protesters on the Embankment during a pro-Palestine march in central London, to call for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. December 9, 2023.
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by an incoherent show that fails to question stereotypical assumptions about the Soviet Union
JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
WILL STONE, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Souleymane’s Story, Sunlight, Good Fortune, and After The Hunt
ALEX HALL recommends an exhaustive investigation of the means by which the Starmer faction assassinated the left
DAVID MORGAN recommends a refreshingly inspiring novel that features encounters with some tremendous women
Look at me, reduced to chanting
“Ceasefire now”
with hundreds through Soho Hill
where Kathryn Dayus’ mum and sister were killed
in the blitz in Birmingham in 1941.
Look at me, reduced to holding my placard
saying “Free Palestine”
while sheepish sullen shoppers
gawp at us as they hurry home
to Mrs Brown’s Boys and Love Island.
Look at me, reduced to writing a letter
to my MP McCabe
asking why on earth he said at our Labour Party meeting
that the BBC is a Hamas mouthpiece.
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