This magazine article that I recently wrote, started out as a cheery recollection of past holidays, However, after reading it, several female friends and family members pointed out that it had descended into ‘evidence that it probably isn’t best to go on holiday with the male species’. So, with this in mind – I thought […]
Famine, Slavery & Solidarity
Victorian white working class poor identifying their plight with that of the black African slaves … Winter 1863. The starving thousands rioted in Stalybridge. Then in Ashton and then in Dukinfield. And the hussars on horseback arrived – charging the crowds in this Mancunian town – some 44 years after Peterloo. But how many of […]
Choose Your Stomping Ground Wisely
“How did we come to live here, Mum?”“Well. We were living in the Kalahari as you know … and we needed to leave because the secret police kept giving us hassle”“Seriously?”“Yeah. Once they were tailing your dad in his Hilux and he stopped. They stopped. And he got out and walked back to them and […]