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We Must Make Our Own Culture
Image by Karen Dietrich By Nick Moss In the June/July 2026 issue of The London Magazine, the editors asked a broadly selected group of poets of some…
Underdogs: a spirited and heartwarming portrait of the left-behind pit villages of Durham
Underdogs is available here Underdogs is the first novel by the working-class, Middlesbrough-born writer Louise Powell. The book is set in 1998 in County Durham and is…
Andy Burnham and the Three Monkeys
Image: Wikicommons By Chris Norris The three monkeys of Japanese Buddhist-influenced folklore embodied the precepts ‘see no evil’ (cover your eyes), ‘hear no evil’ (block your ears),…
‘Rentals are Hen’s Teeth’: Review of The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas – Ecopoems by Helen Moore (Palewell Press, 2006)
By Alan Morrison With her much critically praised debut collection Hedge Fund and Other Living Margins (2012), Helen Moore established herself as a passionate proponent of eco-poetry….
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Why can’t Women Be Priests?
Photo credit: Stephen Brash By Geoff Bottoms Why can’t women be priests? It’s a good question whose time has come, and in many parts of the universal…
Ten books that shook the World Cup
Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman recommends ten reads that reveal the tournament at its best and worst.
Bass, Big Beer & popular demand
By Keith Flett Can a campaign from below, a democratic campaign on a social and cultural activity like beer drinking, have any effect? Yes, it can. The…
Neither Trump nor Infantino but International Footballism
Canada, Mexico, USA Mark Perryman explains how despite the worst efforts of FIFA and the White House, three hats symbolise what remains of a fans’ World Cup I am not…
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Underdogs is available here Underdogs is the first novel by the working-class, Middlesbrough-born writer Louise Powell. The book is set in 1998 in County Durham... Continue reading
Image: Wikicommons By Chris Norris The three monkeys of Japanese Buddhist-influenced folklore embodied the precepts ‘see no evil’ (cover your eyes), ‘hear no evil’ (block... Continue reading
By Alan Morrison With her much critically praised debut collection Hedge Fund and Other Living Margins (2012), Helen Moore established herself as a passionate proponent... Continue reading
Commons image of Ahmed Samir Odeh By Nick Moss ONEAdministrative detention sounds like nothing much,Sounds like a formality, like a temporaryBureaucratic hold; like a traffic... Continue reading
Photograph: Joe Copley Gary Wilkinson introduces his exhibition BLACK HOLE about the socio-political-economic black hole the mining communities found themselves in following the miners’ strike.... Continue reading
By Jeff Gallagher Your hunger makes you smack your lips –what will you take away? – and then yougape astonished at the menu:all he seems... Continue reading
Prime Minister Burnham: commons image By Chris Norris Eeny-meeny-miny-moe,Catch McSweeney by the toe;If he hollers, don’t let go –He’ll run to Mandy, Josh & Co!He’ll... Continue reading
Wikicommons image of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli protest By Willie Hershaw Brekkin intae a fousty auld lock-upand flingan a can o pentower some evil, pizzenous aeroplane... Continue reading
Il Quarto Stato / The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907) By Adam Page There is a silence, almost physically heavy, which settles... Continue reading