History is made at night

On this last day of the decade I am not going to attempt any kind of political balance sheet. Yes it's been a fairly depressing time in...

I haven't done a lot of music making in 2019, but I did enjoy taking part in a Synth Jam earlier in the year as part of the Telegraph H...

As I post this it is forty years ago this very night that anarcho-punk pioneers Crass and Poison Girls played in Luton, along with home town...

In 1936/37 there was a long and bitter miners’ strike in Nottinghamshire centred on Harworth colliery, sparked by the refusal of mine owners...

(Bristol Temple Meads Station, October 2019) 'Long ago, a certain Zhuang Zi dreamed he was a butterfly – a butterfly fluttering her...

I enjoyed 'Blinded by The Light', Gurinder Chadha's movie based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s ‘Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion,...

'Seaside: Photographed' at Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate is a fine exhibition that seeks to ' examine the relationshi...

'Brutal police attack on disco women' by Michael Mason (Gay News [London], April 16-29, 1981) 'Lesbians attending the main s...

 June 1999 was arguably the high point of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts in its UK zone of operations. It was then that the AAA ...

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...