Browsing: Writing
Brexit Boris – From Mayor to Nightmare. By Heathcote Williams
Forensic and passionate, eloquent and polemical, Heathcote Williams’s meticulous prose roars with righteous anger – Jeremy Hardy
Eulogy to the NHS: What happened to world my generation built? By 95-year-old Harry Leslie Smith
Heathcote Williams: My Dad and my Uncle were in World War One
Heathcote Williams wrote this on learning that the UK government was to spend £50million commemorating the World War One centenary.
Heathcote Williams: Whale Nation
Poet Maureen Duffy celebrates the incredible impact of Whale Nation, which inspired an international campaign to ban hunting these mighty sea mammals.
RIP Hugh Masekela: his music will continue to inspire those who have never surrendered
How the United States self-mythologises its meglomaniac empire every Thanksgiving Day
Heathcote Williams: the rebel who wanted to bring poetry down from its ivory tower and change lives
He stands out like a rock in a river: clear, stark and unmoving, as the waters rush around him and vanish.
Buller! Buller! Buller! Boris Johnson and the air of lurking violence
“His defence of bankers’ greed is Bullingdon morality, pure and simple.”
Twilight in Brexitland is a racist and xenophobic swamp – and worse to come unless we stop it
Right now we are becoming a sick society – sick with xenophobia, anti-migrant paranoia and unacknowledged racism.
Heathcote Williams: Eulogy to the Dad I never knew
It’s a strange and difficult process, losing a biological father who gave you half your DNA, but who you only met a handful of times.
