History is made at night

The Specials classic 'Ghost Town' single was released in June 1981. In the same month the band played an anti-racist gig in their h...

I jogged along to cheer on the Youth Strike 4 Climate in  central London yesterday. Great to see thousands of school students seemingly wand...

As documented here before , the words ‘rave’ and ‘ravers’ seem to date back to the post-WW2 UK jazz scene and were widely used through to th...

Going on a recent march against the far right in central London got me thinking about my earliest forays into anti-fascism when I was at sch...

I've long been interested in dreams and visions of flight and space, something I experimented with a bit during the fantastic voyage of ...

I've written here before about music and the 1984/85 miners strike, including putting together a mix which you can find on mixcloud. Bu...

I was sad to hear of the death of  barber Andy Haralambous (1/06/1944 - 09/10/2018). For ten years from the late 1980s, Andy cut my hair reg...

I've been thinking again about the Trump phenomenon. As many have pointed out, plenty of other US  Presidents have presided over racist...

Great article from i-D magazine, no. 91, April 1991 about post-club gatherings at Motorway service stations (click on images to enlarge): ...

In June 1984, US President Ronald Reagan visited London to participate in a World Economic Summit at Lancaster House. This was during the pe...