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Keeping on keeping things together
There are millions of caring, optimistic and open-minded people doing precisely that in these grim times

WHEN you’ve written a column for years about your life as a travelling radical poet and musician, and the gigs and the travelling come to an end because of a devastating virus, you’re in a bit of a dilemma.

There really is only so much you can say about sitting in your office, broadcasting to the world via Facebook Live, YouTube or Zoom. It isn’t as print-worthy as, say, facing down the far right in a devastated town in East Germany or standing in for Donny Osmond at the Marquee in Soho.

My 40th anniversary European tour was reduced to one big online gig on September 8  and thanks to the many pages, including the Morning Star one, which co-hosted it I reached an audience of thousands.

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