I have been writing now in earnest for around 25 years. I started writing TV and film scripts, and then moved to playwriting before – a little over a year ago – I found myself inexplicably returning to poetry (where in truth it all began) – this time, however, I found I had a […]
Month: October 2016
Drunk Uncle Trump
He rants and he raves And he waves his finger Just like your drunk uncle (Although he’s a better singer) He’d like to deport everyone And build a big wall He doesn’t see a single Problem with that at all He’ll try and grab your pussy With his tiny orange hands How is he close […]
Derek Stewart Macpherson Articles
News, Articles and Opinion The Greatest Financial Scam of All Time Derek from Dublin Lest We Forget: the Clydebank Blitz The Hitchhikers’ Guide To The 2017 Local Elections Left, Right and Centre Power: A Winter’s Tale Ursula K. Le Guin – A Personal Tribute The Battle of Hawthorne Town Hall Stop. Seriously, just stop. Now!
The Greatest Financial Scam Of All Time
First published June 7th 2014 Well, somebody has to say it, so it might as well be me. Privatisation is very probably the biggest financial scam of all time. It dwarves anything else I can think of. LIBOR? Fiddling small change. The original Charles Ponzi? Amateur! There has been renewed talk of privatisation recently, […]
Kiera Court
This page is still under construction. The backstage ungagged fairies are working on getting it built asap so check back soon. In the meantime check out her Ungagged Art here
Kiera Court Art
Kiera Court has made some fantastic art work for the ungagged website, including designing our logo.
Debra Torrance Art
The extremely talented Debra Torrance is the artist behind loads of the Ungagged site artwork: Including the majority of the artwork for Ungagged’s Activist Advent: Debra is pretty good at portraits of political figures too:
We’ve Never Had It So Good
Shit, my head is banging. I didn’t think I was that drunk last night, but I feel like someone has come in when I was asleep and replaced my tongue with a sock full of sand. I can’t even remember the election result, let alone getting home and going to bed. Maybe I fell […]
Finding God
You mean I never told you how I found God? What, never? You won’t believe me anyway. I mean, I wouldn’t. Oh you still want to know? Ok, here’s what happened. It was a few years back and I was on a road trip. Sheila had left me a couple months before and […]
Hand of Dog
A Stoner Rock Band prevalent in the Glasgow music scene circa 2008-2010. They issued ‘ Diaries of the Dysfunctional’ featuring songs such as ‘call the shots’ ’10 ways to kill a Mexican’ ’16 cities’ ‘something caught fire’ and ‘goat boy’. They had a busy live schedule around Scotland for 2 years but eventually work and travel […]