17 02, 2025

Politics, Lives, Page Turners:  The Courage of Claret Press publishing Sylvia Vetta and Pen Farthing  

By |February 17th, 2025|Categories: Ai Weiwei, China, Art & History, Cultural Appropriation, Events, Lost History, Novels and short stories|0 Comments

Politics, Lives, Page Turners:  The Courage of Claret Press publishing Sylvia Vetta and Pen Farthing   I first made this blog  before Pen Farthing and I talked at the Oxford Indie Book Fair . Today's Guardian feature warrants re-posting it.

14 02, 2025

The Fifties : Don’t romanticise them not even on Valentine’s day!

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 The Fifties: Don't romanticise them not even on Valentine’s Day! Yesterday, I watched two one act plays by Terrence Rattigan at the Oxford Playhouse. They took me back to the fifties like a time machine! When I interviewed Sir Roger

22 01, 2025

How to stop the marginalisation of minority groups.

By |January 22nd, 2025|Categories: Ai Weiwei, Art, China, Art & History, India, Kennington, Letters to the press, Madras Courier, Mixed relationships, Novels and short stories, Shepherd.com|0 Comments

In todays i Yasmin Alibhai Brown writes about British Citizens of Pakistani ancestry and how they regard the grooming gangs. The conclusion was that most people of that background despise them and are distressed by the suffering of the exploited