Max Newland is not a professional writer, speaker, scholar, or columnist. Max is a cashier at a local food Co-Op and lives in Washington, USA (The west coast one with the mountains) with his wife and cat, Cassie and Lydia respectively. After training in acting and theatre for six years in his early adult life, […]
Writers & Contributors
Mayhem in England
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 […]
SKZ Cartoons
In the wake of the Brexit vote and Trump’s election victory, SKZ considered the question: “If you can’t laugh, what can you do?” and was disappointed to find that most of the options included actual effort: so he started to write cartoons instead. This turned out to be less difficult than he thought, because of […]
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
The Clock Strikes Christmas – An Alternative Christmas Tale
This piece originilly appeared on V’s blog “You have to understand, we didn’t want this” said Berry nervously. “Every elf in the workshop chose this job because we are passionate about bringing hope, joy and laughter to people all around the world-“ “Yet here you are, threatening to strike days before Christmas.” said Santa, stroking […]
Beinn Irbhinn
Beinn Irbhinn (anglicised: Ben Irvine) is a Scottish socialist, originally from Greenock. He is known in Greenock for his activity while a member of the SSP, where he campaigned for the socialist case for Scottish independence, as well as being vocal on issues such as fuel poverty in Inverclyde and strongly opposing Inverclyde Council’s insidious […]
Brian Pollitt
Brian Pollitt worked in Cuba from 1963-68 as Technical Director of the Commission of Social Studies, carrying out rural surveys and appraising the socio-economic conditions of the Cuban peasantry. Subsequently, he carried out frequent periods of fieldwork, focussing on the economic and social history of modern Cuba with special reference to the sugar economy. From […]
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 […]
Liberty or 2016..!
Download FREE on iTunes or Podbean The death of a year of deaths… and we look at Liberty! It’s a bumper December episode… take your time, savour and reflect and then troll us on Twitter – where we are opening our Activists Advent… On this episode, themed around Liberty, we have the former guitarist with […]