Note: These two short pieces written after the June 4th election result , are extracted from a collection of essays , Studies in the Grey Zone, due to be published by eyeglass books in October. Take One: One Nation Labourism and the Great Moving Right Show The question of just how and from where, and with whom it is possible to throw a … [Read more...] about WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET : A DOUBLE TAKE ON THE UK ELECTION 2024
Living Maps : towards a poetry made by all
Looking back on the first ten years of Livingmaps Network Every project has its founding myth , a story about its origins in which the cold rational prose of ‘aims and objectives’ melts into the thicker air of an auto-poetics. The risk is that in the process starting points become end points, and the capacity for improvisation gives way … [Read more...] about Living Maps : towards a poetry made by all
ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS
The Triple Misalliance I An extract from'Studies in thr Grey Zone; Waypoints Vol 2 to be published by eyglass books at Easter 2024 .Introduction One of the many fallouts from the current horrific conflict in Palestine/Israel is the way sections of the Hard Left have advanced an apologetics for the atrocities committed by Hamas, while ignoring or … [Read more...] about ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS
WRITING BEHIND THE LINE
This is the Preface to Waypoints Volume 2 : Studies in the Grey Zone , a collection of new work to be published by eyeglass books in September 2024 PREFACE: Writing behind the lines The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways … [Read more...] about WRITING BEHIND THE LINE
In Praise of the Heimlich Manoeuvre
Text of speech given at Wivenhoe House on June 3rd 2023, on the occasion of my 80th birthday. Reasons to be Cheerful : that so many people managed to actually get here despite no trains, traffic jams and all the other impediments to everyday life . Reason not to be so cheerful: we had to cancel the band and the big birthday bash due to the strikes . So I am … [Read more...] about In Praise of the Heimlich Manoeuvre