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Poet, essayist, dancer, performance artist....

Stencil Art

Here I introduce my 2024 slide-show. It uses my watercolours which can be viewed any way up. Please don’t open the link to the video if you are likely to be offended by explicit images. The video is for adults … Continue reading

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WHY YOU ALL LOATHE RUSSIA (updated 18/10/2025)

Richard Cobden 1836 Russia’s support for Syria (updated) The South African Information Scandal Putin’s ejection of the oligarchs The takeover of the Guardian The Magnitsky Act Novichok and the Skripals If you try to discover anything about recent Russian history … Continue reading

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Homage to the Horses of Saint Petersburg

Homage to the Horses of St Petersburg Originally performed in August 1998 as “The Return of the Horse to the Riding School” in the Manège – Saint Petersburg’s Central Exhibition Hall, formerly the Imperial Riding School, during the Second Festival … Continue reading

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PARKING PERMIT PROFITEERING A Letter to my MP and part of his reply

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/29779355/visitors-council-triple-parking-fees-dishonesty/?#Echobox=1723223881 Dear Mr Lammy I have read that Haringey Council has voted to triple the cost of parking, as well as ending daily permits so that only hourly ones will be available. This will completely wipe me out. I will … Continue reading

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Some Images from the River Lee

A rusty boat A sunken boat Another sunken boat Stonebridge Lock, Tottenham A closer look at the lock Hum of bees A web in the thicket

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The RUNIAD – Book 10

Excerpt from Book 10 in the Fortnightly Review here. As a work in progress Books 1-10 can be read for free as a Heyzine online book. On the Heyzine link there is a contents page – p 5. All the pages are … Continue reading

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Stewart Lee: The best performance I’ve ever seen

Table Moves, Birmingham Art Gallery, 1985 – Photograph: Judith Ahern ‘I was 16,’ says Stewart Lee, ‘and susceptible.’ It was my schoolfriend Simon Smith, perpetually ahead of the curve, who made me see the then-unknown REM catch fire at a … Continue reading

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Major Stede Bonnet – Gentleman Pirate

Introducing a new Heyzine online book: here is the link Major Stede Bonnet was an authentic pirate of the Caribbean.  However, he was also a landowner and gentleman of Barbados, and the only pirate to have purchased his own ship.  … Continue reading

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Maria Zakharova on English Literature!

When you listen to the State Department’s latest cries that Gershkovich is a journalist and not a spy, just remember the autobiography of the British writer Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Patterned Veil) called … Continue reading

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TANGO

x I have to dance a tango with Joe. Commission I should not have taken on though Reduced to a flourish at the show. Joe can’t get the footwork. The red carpet Doesn’t help his pivot. No, Joe, no! Christ, … Continue reading

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