A leftist perspective on modern politics
The beginning of a new decade, the beginning of 2020, this is a good time to properly analyse the last year in UK politics. So, the end of 2019 was not an amazing time for me in terms of the fallout from the general election, with Boris Johnson’s Conservatives winning a big majority and Jeremy... Continue Reading →
I wrap my fear in hopeful wrapping paper, glittery and eye-catching. Hope is more than just a feeling; hope is a weapon… hope is my weapon! Hope is a candle in the darkest night, a coat in the darkest night, and the very last pound coin in your pocket. I walk through streets of... Continue Reading →
Over the weekend I watched Ken Loach’s new film ‘Sorry We Missed You’, and I think it is the most I have been so emotionally moved by a film in a long time. The film follows a family in modern Britain struggling financially to get by, and how their lives are torn apart through a... Continue Reading →
I can’t stand the heat, or well, what it signifies… Desertification, flooding, and droughts, nightmares materialising into reality. Why are you all talking about it like that? In such an apathetic way… I am angry, I am incensed, I am… afraid! So deeply, deeply afraid… Our climate is warming and changing, I feel like... Continue Reading →
It is undeniable that we currently live in a capitalist system which prioritises the constant consumption in order to be sustained, and it is also undeniable that our planet is being changed in a massive and destructive way thanks to the impact of this consumption and humanity. This shows that the system of global capitalism... Continue Reading →
Reds bled into greens, Yellows collided into the mess, With pink splattered through the air. Hands holding, with steely tender determination And banners fluttering violently in the wind. This was our statement, Our colourful, defiant, loving statement, In the midst of the rainbow cloud. For all those who came before us, Those that were beaten... Continue Reading →
Theresa May: Prime Minister, Head of the British Government, Conservative… dancer? If you have been trawling over the internet in the last week, you will understand exactly what I am talking about. Theresa May has visited South Africa in the last week and was captured dancing in a quite humiliating fashion, which has been adopted... Continue Reading →
Ah, Donald J Trump, the President of the United States and the man that has dominated the political journalistic sphere over the last few years. However, whilst there has been a lot of scandal in the Presidency of the 45th President of the United States, the most recent scandal surrounding the President’s supposed affair with... Continue Reading →
Welcome to a new feature on this blog, Political Poetry. This is original poetry that I penned myself, which have elements of modern-day politics woven into them. The first poem is called 'Margaret Thatcher's Legacy', which is my views on the legacy that Britain's first female Prime Minister left in her wake after her very... Continue Reading →
‘Tell Me It’s Not True’, ‘Easy Terms’ and ‘Bright New Day’ are all iconic songs from Willy Russel’s iconic musical Blood Brothers. Whilst Blood Brothers is an amazing performance of emotion, complex and deep characters, and the excellent way the songs are the thread that weave all these elements together, which all makes it personally my favourite musical of all time, it can also be looked at as a piece of political commentary...
Left of the Tracks 