If you were to glance at the front pages today, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bit of a slow news day in England, dominated as they are by stories about the class action suit against VW and the shocking story that we might experience some snow this January. To glance at the […]
Ungagged Writing
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John McHarg Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Hey, Gringo! Fiction A Statement from the BBC Finders Keepers The Door and the Handle Poetry So What, If Check out John’s Ungagged Art
Hey Gringo! You’re in trouble now!
San Felipe, Baja California 1998. I didn’t want to go, this was a fairly common reaction when Gary suggested going anywhere. Through frequent bad judgement being anywhere with Gary was a bad idea and as was to prove more than accurate, this time was no different. “Let’s go down to San Felipe” This was Thursday, […]
Jesus – Guilty as Charged
Jesus Christ did not come to rescue Wall Street like President Obama. He did not come to save the American Chamber of Commerce. He did not come to free corporations, regardless of how many courts claim that they are, contrary to all rational thought, “persons”. And he would not have agreed with that money is […]
Tracks of my Years
This piece originally appeared on Neil’s blog A loaded gun wont set you free…” -Lyrics in the context of my growing up in Northern Ireland that had meaning beyond the meaning Ian Curtis perhaps intended. As a young man I was continually questioning all that was going on around me. Growing up in a mid-Ulster […]
Bits of Kids
This piece originally appeared on Neil’s blog We drank our tins of Satzenbrau shivering on the school roof looking across the streetlit mid-Ulster valley that was my hometown of Banbridge. Another Friday night without a care. Out of the six of us, I was the only one working. The others were all still in High […]
Bisexuality, from a bisexual
Bisexuality is not a point on a spectrum that has heterosexuality on one end and homosexuality at the other. It’s more like the flip-side of a coin with monosexuality on its reverse. Monosexuality includes both of those other sexual orientations, heterosexuality and homosexuality, that in truth have more in common with each other than […]
Battle of Backwater Bridge
The situation in North Dakota took a significantly more sinister turn on Sunday, as militarised security personnel began to attack unarmed water protectors with water cannon, tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades. In a move condemned by both the UN and Amnesty International, water cannon were deployed against unarmed peaceful protesters, including elders […]
Victoria Pearson Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Battle of Backwater Bridge Mayhem in England The Tories Go Full Fash GE17: The Brexit Distraction Judge Tories on their Record Foodbanks are for Life, not just for Christmas Universal Chaos V’s Fee, East Kilbride Yes, and Manels Justice For Terrell Free Jaggi Now Weaponising Fragility Women on Top? […]
Allan Grogan Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Sleepwalking to the Abyss Where’s the Alternative Four Years Ago… Votes of No Confidence What does it take to cause change? Is democracy about false promises… or promises filled Scottish Leadership Debates? You’ve forced me to comment…