BY GARY MCGHEE “Shot by both sides, on the run, to the outside of everything, they must have come, to a secret understanding…” (Shot By Both Sides – Howard Devoto/Pete Shelley 1978) I have never joined a political party and never bought wholly into any ideology. I mainly subscribe to the Groucho Marx view that I refuse to join any club that would have me … Continue reading The Rise of the Anti-Homosexuals
BY ALEX STORY “The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies” said former Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn upon winning the Nobel Prize in 1970. He had written The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume non-fiction investigation on the notorious Soviet forced labour camp system in which millions were imprisoned, tortured and often killed – Most for no reason. Much more quickly than … Continue reading No Rights
BY ALEX STORY “A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it’s a miracle,” Nurse exclaimed joyfully as she remembered the birth of Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder II. She then added “and then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed”. Bells, the first episode of Blackadder II, aired on the BBC in January … Continue reading Last Days of the Asylum?
BY ANYA LEWIS ‘Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation’ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own There is a big fat elephant in the room and no one is talking about it. Not only has womanhood ceased to be a protected occupation, it’s ceasing to be a protected sex and a hell of a lot of women are facilitating … Continue reading The War against Womanhood
