annarky's blog.

      Well they came in swing their hatchet, cut, cut, cut, pain is necessary to get “the economy” going again. Of course...

      Today's poem was written shortly after the death of my mother, so is a very personal out pouring, but I'm sure lots of yo...

      The Boston bombing was a very serious affair and must have been frightening for those runners and spectators near t...

      There is one thing that most people in the UK are sure of, is that at no time did they vote for the privatisation of The National ...

   You could say that today's poem follows on from the previous post. The High And Mighty. Politicians, high priests of the ...

      We all know that there is something wrong with the way we live, the difference is in how do we fix it. Day by day it becomes more...

      I think it was Bertrand Russell who said,  "The one thing I regret is my politeness, it stifled my honesty." not verba...

      The Boston Bombing focuses the mind on what kind of society is America. There is justified horror at this event, but there seems t...

       Sad poems, happy poems, thoughtful poems and down right depressing poems, there's room for them all, for that is the territ...

    Good news and bad news from Labour Start:        A few weeks ago I wrote to ask for your support for more than 100 public secto...

    I know, another Thatcher thingy, but the establishment is throwing so much of it at us, we have to throw something back. So here are...

      I don't write in the vernacular, but admire those who can. Away, way, way back in the good ol' days of the 1980's I di...

      Austerity isn't working for that elusive "growth", across the globe the "experts" keep cutting the expect...

      I know I said that the last post on Thatcher would be my last word on the subject, but I couldn't help myself on this one. I s...

      I know it's supposed to be a poem-a-day throughout April, and there already has been one, but I just received this from a comra...

Robb Johnson Friday 26th April Partick Folk Club , St Peter's Hall, 66 Chancellor Street, Partick, Glasgow G11 5PS ( map )  brin...

       With the conditions of the ordinary people deteriorating at an ever increasing pace, as state after state force through legislati...

        I hope this is the last thing I write or say about Thatcher and the Thatcher era, as it is now being called. The usual mouth...

       Sombre, proud, reflective, critical, joyous, hopeful, poems of every shade, out there to be savoured. Buried Treasure. Ric...

     A wee bit late, but an appeal from Labour Start: ...