Poetry update

All righty then. Many late nights in front of the telly later and I have migrated 61 of my poems into the new system, slightly tweaked with feed­back from vari­ous folks and moved to my own server since I could­n’t fiddle with col­ours and CSS if it stayed...

About bloody time

Mal Brough says we should remove the per­pet­rat­ors of crime from the scene rather than the victim. What a novel idea. Funny how male viol­ence against women and chil­dren is the only one where we reg­u­larly require the victim to relo­cate ‘for her safety’...

Geoffrey Robertson, I love you

Only Geof­frey Robertson could actu­ally ask Amanda Van­stone on national tele­vi­sion to recite the second verse of the national anthem and catch her out on “for those who’ve come across the sea/we’ve bound­less plains to share” and then actu­ally say to her, “It...