Arts
Towers And Lovers
The train from Cartagena is eleven minutes late arriving into Alicante and almost twenty minutes behind schedule by the time it leaves for Zaragoza. Not that anyone minds, it is the way of the things [more…]
Philosophy
Journalism
Rotherham’s Brown Wall And Thin Blue Line
Previously in Oldham In July’s first part of Brown Wall, Blue Line we looked at Oldham. A report entitled Review into historic safeguarding practices in the borough of Oldham exposed a seedy underbelly of child [more…]
Arts
Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses
In The Beginning Prior to sitting his professional exams, Anis Rushdie, one of the Kashmiri Rushdies, graduated from Lahore’s University of Punjab in the mid-1930s. After passing fourth overall, and as top Mulsim, Anis was [more…]
Christianity
The Lord’s Prayer
My Own Interpretation The Lord’s Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our [more…]
Arts
Set in Stone
This tale begins, as so many tales do, on a dismal winter’s day. This particular day, a miserably chilly and grey February one, was a decidedly rubbish day. Not only had Mr S and I [more…]
Journalism
Blue Line, Brown Wall
Life in a Northern Town If this were the Whitechapel in the 1960s, retired dockers debating over pints of London Pride in the ‘Blind Beggar’ would glance nervously about while muttering under their breaths. Faces [more…]
Arts
A View From The Greenhouse; (Pain and Loss)
Welcome dear readers; before we get started, a warning. Those of you that aren’t interested in the maudlin, or the philosophy of loss, or the pain which accompanies it, look away now, this isn’t going [more…]
21st Century
The future of UK Politics and the Rise of Islam
In 1997 Tony Bliar opened the floodgates to uncontrolled migration, then deliberately shut down debate and discussion, as anyone who mentioned anything about it was called a racist. The conclusion I reached was that by [more…]
Christianity
The great delusion
It is abundantly clear, to those that have eyes to see at least, that the average man or woman has been shaken to their very core by the events that have occurred over the past [more…]