Why D’ya Do It? By Marianne Faithfull. Words by Heathcote Williams
Why’d ya do it, she said, they’re mine, all your jewels You just tied me to the mast of the ship of fools
Browsing: Writing
Al Pacino’s obsession with Heathcote Williams
Hollywood actor Al Pacino funded and starred in a film of Heathcote Williams’ play The Local Stigmatic.
United Kingdom of Insecurity: Finsbury Park and the stench of neglect at Grenfell
We now inhabit a country – and a world – that is bracing itself for the next atrocity and the next massacre.
Bring in the Tory clowns after their tin-eared and dim-witted election campaign
Theresa May’s government has driven itself and the country into a hole and it has no idea how to get out.
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson: two blonde beasts harpooned by Heathcote Williams
“I thought I’d try my hand at harpooning. Fortunately, two suitable targets surfaced.”
How Jeremy Corbyn made the country suddenly feel like a better place to live in
On 8 June 2017, a new political generation made its voice heard for the first time.
Can media lies really win this election for Theresa May’s chaotic government?
We must not fall for a government that is trying to distract us from its own failure with smears and fake appeals to patriotism.
It isn’t rocket science: why I’m definitely voting Labour and you should too
Theresa May’s government cannot be allowed to inflict even more damage on British society.
The terror election and what we can do about it
We should never allow ourselves to descend into the sewer that those who carried out the London Bridge attacks would like us to sink into.
Why a peace hero of Islam is not welcome as Theresa May and Trump scapegoat Muslims
In today’s Islamophobic western world, the 100,000-strong ‘Islamic Peace Army’ has been written out of history.
Remembering Heathcote Williams
He’ll be remembered as one of our great writers of visionary dissent in the tradition of Blake and Shelley.
Theresa May’s politics of fear and the avoidance of scrutiny
In the aftermath of this hateful act, the Prime Minister has sought to portray herself as strong, appealing to public fear, while advocating the militarisation of our streets.
The importance of understanding Heathcote Williams
It is precisely Heathcote Williams’ purity of heart that causes him to investigate the corrosion in the hearts of others,