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BORIS JOHNSON IS A MORAL CHARLATAN:
FINED FOR BREAKING HIS OWN LOCKDOWN RULES.
GUILTY OF HAVING LIED TO PARLIAMENT AND TO THE PUBLIC REPEATEDLY OVER HIS BREACHES.
FIRST EVER SERVING PRIME MINISTER TO HAVE BEEN FOUND TO HAVE BROKEN THE LAW WHILE IN OFFICE.
REFUSES TO RESIGN!
CYNICALLY USING THE WAR IN UKRAINE AS SOME KIND OF EXCUSE FOR HIM TO REMAIN
IN HIS POSITION.
THIS MAN IS A MORAL CHARLATAN,
A SOCIOPATH AND NARCISSIST WHO ONLY HAS HIS OWN PETTY INTERESTS AT HEART AND WHO SHOWS THE UTMOST CONTEMPT TOWARDS EVERYONE ELSE.
THIS MAN IS A MENACE TO OUR DEMOCRACY.
HE MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE
NOW!
NO IFS, NO BUTS!
MILITANT
...it is wrong...to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance
Alan Bold (1970)
Modern English polite society... seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it.
A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob
George Bernard Shaw An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
John Davidson (1857–1909)
It is necessary for the socialist poet to have more impressive technical equipment than his apolitical contemporaries because his task is that much more important.
Alan Bold (1970)
A Poet of Compassion An Obituary for David Kessel
A Eulogy for David by his son Tom Kessel
New Reviews Felix Cassiel on Nancy Charley's How Death Came into the World
Felix Cassiel on RM Francis' Subsidence and Jo Colley's Sleeper
Philip Williams on Peter Branson's The Clear Daylight
Felix Cassiel on Owen Gallagher's Clydebuilt
Alan Morrison on Michael Crowley's The Battle of Heptonstall and Bob Beagrie's Civil Insolencies
Felix Cassiel on Karl Riordan's The Tattooist's Chair and Deborah Moffatt's Eating Thistles
Felix Cassiel on Andy Green's This Noise Is Free and Caroline Maldonado's Isabella
Alan Morrison on two new Shoestring collections by Andy Croft and Alexis Lykiard
Alan Morrison on Geoffrey Heptonstall's The Rites of Paradise
Reviews Dave Russell on James Joyce
Dave Russell on Duane Voorhees' Gift – God Runs Through All These Rooms
Felix Cassiel on Victoria Bean's Liberties
Felix Cassiel on Richard Skinner's Terrace
Felix Cassiel on Francis Combes' If The Symptoms Persist
Felix Cassiel on Goran Simić's New and Selected Sorrows
Alan Morrison on Stephen Sawyer's There Will Be No Miracles Here
Alan Morrison on Bernard Saint's Roma and Michael Crowley's First Fleet
Leon Brown on Mike Leigh's Peterloo (2018)
Jenny Farrell's Marxist Reading of Wuthering Heights
New Fred Russell on The Roots of Racism
New Marx & Morry David Betteridge on reading Karl Marx
Alan Morrison on Andy Croft's Letters To Randall Swingler
Alan Morrison on Ian Parks' Citizens
Dave Russell on Stevie James' A Lonely Man Circling the Earth
Kevin Saving on A Quiet Passion, Deaths of the Poets and The Bughouse: the poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound
Reviews Alan Morrison on Andy Willoughby's Between Stations
Alan Morrison on Larry Beckett's Paul Bunyan
Dave Russell on Wendy Young's The Dream of Somewhere Else
New Poems Mircea Boboc, Michael Wyndham, Olecksandr Korotko, Stephen Mead, Joel Schueler, Antony Owen,
Tom Kelly, Tasos Leivaditis tr. N.N. Trakakis, Sanjeev Sethi, John Seed, Elaine Cusack, Charles March III, Keith Moul,
Roger Ettenfield, Douglas Penick, Stephen Kingsnorth, Tanner, Rudy Baron, Steve Pottinger, Ilhem Issaoui, Alan Price,
Fiona Sinclair, Ken Simpson, Sam Silva, Jim Morris, Keith Armstrong, Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Rachel Hegarty,
Liam O'Neill, Alan O'Brien, Fred Johnston, David Butler, Moya Roddy, Michael Lee Johnson, Patrick Bolger,
Francis Devine, Alan Weadick, Andrew Barnes, Bernard Saint, Michael H. Brownstein