Author: Speymouth

‘Tis the Season to be easin’

Speymouth December 20, 2022

It’s that time of the year again when we eat too much, drink too much, and wake up the next day with a killer hangover, which is just your body’s way of saying :”Go and stay in your room young man/lady, and think very carefully about what you have done.” This…

From Loch to Park

Speymouth December 19, 2022

From Loch to Park – a celebration of 300 years of Edinburgh Meadows Did you know that the Edinburgh Meadows was once a big lake on the outskirts of Edinburgh? This park has so much history and even after it was drained there were several attempts to build big structures on it, so it is […] Source

The Misogynoir of Jeremy Clarkson

Speymouth December 19, 2022

Whether it was Isabel Oakeshott being given a platform by the BBC to explain how she ‘doesn’t believe in strikes’ or Stephen Kinnock explaining how Labour would support sending in troops to break striking workers, we seem to have entered a new era of vile media complicity with Britain’s unmuzzled populist right. Isabel Oakeshott – […] Source

The Aye right reflex

Speymouth December 19, 2022

Well I am back online again, thank you to everyone who helped. I have lost some data, my own fault for not backing everything up for a few weeks, but it’s nothing I can’t live without. The problem was that the SSD drive in the old laptop gave up the ghost….

The State We’re In

Speymouth December 18, 2022

Over the coming weeks over the holiday period we’ve commissioned a series of writers and activists to reflect on where we are and review not just the year but the space we find ourselves in. This is the first of a series reflecting on the State We’re In.   As we come to the coldest darkest […] Source