Without Prejudice – Vote Wisely, Vote Stradbroke Seven
We live in an age where lies and corruption are the new normal. Liars and lawbreakers are not brought to justice, and media outlets redistribute their lies as truth. This is… Continue Reading
Saint Gertrude
She is startled by reflectionsHer one eye doesn’t understand,By the light travelling along the wall,The spectre of full sight eluding her. In the dark, she sees figmentsThat aren’t a part… Continue Reading
Saint Theresa
I saw you coming out of church on SundayClutching your handbag and husbandAnd leaning against the wind and the countryWith a smile painted painfully on your empty faceStiff amidst those… Continue Reading
#InternationalWomensDay
For all the women on this planet, this poem is the most popular that I’ve performed in public. Grab the equality you should have with both hands.Numbers Often,You make yourself… Continue Reading
Living in a lawless land – Part II
Since my most recent blogpost (3rd March), Theresa May has one day, laughably, claimed that reducing the police force has had no direct correlation with rising knife crime in the… Continue Reading
Living in a lawless land
When we hear that popular trope that mature democracies destroy themselves, our thoughts tend to immediately scurry to military coups culminating in the installation of a dictator, of manufactured right-wing unrest… Continue Reading
RIP Gordon Banks – the goalkeepers’ union
Goalkeepers It’s always like this.The last line of defence,The final cliché.We are the ones who suffer. Even in victory,Each weakness, misjudgement,Is sentenced a callous on our selves,And in defeatOurs is… Continue Reading
Why Your YES Vote Matters – In Plain English
Currently Planning applications go to the Parish Council and Mid-Suffolk District Council (MSDC).The Parish Council makes recommendations on planning applications.MSDC is not legally obliged to act on the recommendations of… Continue Reading
Stradbroke Neighbourhood Plan Referendum – Private Profit or Public Benefit?
Before we’re asked to take part in the People’s Vote (and yes, it will come), there’s another referendum where we’re being asked to answer the question I’ve asked above. And… Continue Reading
#PeoplesVote response to my letter from Daniel Poulter MP
Finally, more than three weeks after I wrote to him about a #peoplesvote, my constituency MP, Daniel Poulter, got back to me. His response is followed by my immediate response… Continue Reading