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 […]
Ungagged Writing
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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…
Looking Back
This piece originally appeared on Neil’S personal blog Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, is a strange read and it is so for a number of reasons, not least being the fact that it was published in 1888 and is about the socialist utopia the writer envisages for the 20th century. In it he predicts […]
Sleepwalking to the Abyss
This piece originally appeared on Allan’s website 2016 has been some year so far. A year in which Scotland once again failed to qualify for an international football tournament and 2 months into the new qualifiers already look out of the next one. A year which every celebrity is wondering if they will […]
Remember Ronald Reagan
Remember when Ronald Reagan opened his presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair, in the same community in which the three civil rights workers were murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1963? Remember when the week before Super Tuesday Ronald Reagan gave a “tough on crime” speech in Stone Mountain, […]
Chuck Hamilton Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Rise Up And Abandon The Creeping Meatball Remember Ronald Reagan Bisexuality, From A Bisexual Jesus – Guilty as Charged The Union Is Dissolved (Or Soon Will Be) The Meaning of Life, Part 1: Cosmic Perspective The Meaning of Life, Part 2: Ain’t no Power In the ‘Verse The Meaning of Life […]
Rise Up and Abandon the Creeping Meatball
Remember what Jean Shepherd said about creeping meatballism being the passive acquiescence of people who surrender to the demands of the consumer culture and collaborate in their own manipulation? In the Great Satan back in the 1960s, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and three of their friends founded the counterculture-oriented Youth International Party whose slogan […]