On and off, for over thirty years, Andy Hall has aimed his camera at The City of London […]
Publish and be damned, as the Duke of Wellington retorted! There is no one way to write poetry and there are many who would teach you poetry while they struggle themselves! There are no regulations regarding workshops. So please stumble and be bruised; choose workshops and mentors wisely. Success is not guaranteed. Do read poems, learn, read more, listen, read aloud, and follow your path. Even the likes of Walt Whitman and Lord Tennyson were condemned in their times! Many have explained poetry, only poetically, but no one can do so concretely. Here are other takes by various poets…
The longing for a homeland is legitimate and the result of two millennia of European persecution. By […]
The Founder of Obsidian Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright and based in London. His debut Kingdom of Gravity was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and nominated by The Guardian as one of the best books of 2017.
By Keith Woodhouse The night was over And the sea curds crackled And bent, crisply, in the deadening […]
By Paul Halas A favourite saying amongst Tories, not least the late demented Margaret Thatcher, is that the […]
By Adam Lickley 2017 did not end well for me. I was ‘let go’ from my job, my […]
by James Tweedie So you wanna be a journo, and why not? Well, here are a few good […]
by Francisco Dominguez On July 2nd 2020 British Judge Nigel Teare, with regard to a Central Bank of […]
My march through the relative silence of nine years Has brought me to a small house With a […]
By Adam Lickley So you fancy being a dancer, huh? And who doesn’t want to be paid to […]
By Phil Hall The first guided client to be ushered up the slopes of Chomolungma-Sagarmatha by Sherpa Tenzing […]
Story-writing for comics By Paul Halas It’s surprising how often I’ve been asked how one becomes a comic […]
March Lapwings Now everythingbegins to moveand everything stayswhere it iseach ash treeand each hummockshifts […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present episode 10 of Dan Pearce’s groundbreaking graphic novel, Depression.
Selected by Dominic Tweedie from: Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, Interviews, 1918-1974 Paul Robeson was a superstar in […]
Modern conspiracy theory and the appeal of fascism and racism for the working class By Bryan Greetham In […]
Cuban culture vigorously celebrates its African-ness by Francisco Dominguez When in 1868, Cuban slave-owner Manuel de Céspedes embarked […]
by Eugene McCartan Image: new Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin, leader of the Fianna Fail party. SO, AFTER months […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the ninth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce
National Socialism offered the lower middle class a way of side-stepping the choice between liberalism or socialism. It […]
The moment has come for the soft left to develop a backbone and make a stand against reactionary […]
There was no antisemitism: the troubling case of Peake, Starmer and Long Bailey By Richard House, Abdul-Karim Al-Malahi, […]
We grew up up understanding that nature is wild and and dangerous. By Phil Hall In a film […]
Global warming is real, but it is not an excuse for misanthropes to voice their hatred of humanity. […]
A Storm A storm is brewing. Rain is sudden, heavy, falling with shadows, a thunder of echoes on […]
Yogesh Patel A recent report exposes short comings of many publishers in the UK. Albeit, to call the […]
A Freedom Charter for Great Britain? If we held a constitutional assembly, all the progressive forces in British […]
Welcome to the monthly editorial and welcome to Ars Notoria. Strangely enough, the editorial for June 2020 will […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the eighth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce
By Paul Halas The blame game continues. Meanwhile… While the general public and the media obsess about Coronavirus […]
PPP/C must seize the day by James Tweedie Guyanese caretaker president David Granger still refuses to admit defeat […]
Socialists and capitalists together have ruined the planet. by Pete Field Even though climate scientists tell us we […]
Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films 1940 – 1995 By Vivien Halas This year marks the 80th year since […]
Everyday working class, fascism is real by Phil Hall One of the dirty secrets of history is that […]
Pearl Fishers by Steven O’Brien Such ember-gold in your eyes,As no other girlAnd deep church-glass green,Purple, soft as […]
by Yogesh Patel Saddens me we are binaryto my skin.Grandpa used to tell me a lie.Prof Macaulay would […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the seventh episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce.
First Chávez, now Trump Photo by Alisdare Hickson (https://www.flickr.com/people/59952459@N08) by James Tweedie Sayre’s Law states that: “In any […]
COMICS – THE SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT By Paul Halas To this day there’s still an intellectual snobbery […]
Is the solution to racism, misogyny and prejudice a nicer capitalism or do we need a more profound […]
A short appraisal by MERVYN HYDE As a baby boomer, born one month after the war in Japan […]
Democracy delayed is democracy denied by James Tweedie Today is the 40th anniversary of the murder of Guyanese […]
Decades of dead-souled, dead music in zombie filled arenas headlined by people like Dylan. By Phil Hall Prospero […]
– and bloody annoyed at the constant micro and macro racism of the British police By Des Willie […]
How we regained faith in politics By Paul Halas Jeremy Corbyn was a phenomenon. This relatively obscure politician […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the sixth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce.
In my wildest dreams I never thought I would hang out with my hero, Muhammad Ali. By Andy […]
Extract originally published in The London Magazine By Eve Hall My heroine of very early days was Joan […]
Challenging the Neoliberal Onslaught By Richard House I recently interviewed tireless childhood campaigner Sue Palmer for the Morning […]
– like Richard Steinhardt By Phil Hall Grandpa was an admirer of Napoleon and this was partly why […]
A cracker from the renowned Circus Chef. “A bit of isolation cooking here. A breakfast toad in the […]
George Szirtes We remain rainless. The late sun draped on washing like a faded flag. This is our […]
In the USA racism is the collateral damage caused by social inequality and injustice, and a history of […]
It’s staggering that as the world spiralled into a political death loop over the past decade, and trust […]
Anandi Sharan Giving and receiving Giving and receiving isa matter of systems-logic.Listen to the poets!Here it is,metabolising civilisation.Is […]
The Problem of Surplus and the COVID-19 Pandemic. ‘Can we justify £16bn fortunes when nurses are poorly compensated, […]
Can we look forward to a more sustainable future when the Coronavirus virus recedes? By PAUL HALAS For […]
Song by Richard Tuley: Taking Back Control By Richard Tuley Perhaps it’s distasteful to mention Brexit. People […]
Che appeals to revolutionary fantasists who like the poetry of violence. By Phil Hall When we watched a […]
One of the greatest pleasures in my grandfather’s life was to visit the market in Cannes, to admire […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the fourth episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
The revolutionary environmentalist, Anandi Sharan, argues that to meet 2050 zero carbon emissions the government must give each […]
Was Labour’s 2019 Election Defeat a Grave – Even Terminal – Defeat for Democracy Itself? By Richard House […]
LISTEN TO THE LEFT STARMER, OR GO! Masks off! Keir Starmer got elected as Labour leader under false […]
A new paradigm for school accountability and improvement is long overdue – and a judicial review against Ofsted […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the third episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
by Philip Hall Richmond Park is not far away from us. It’s easy to reach it and to […]
By Paul Halas Why would a sane person go fishing? How many times have I been asked that […]
In Search of Salt – by Yogesh Patel There is a jungle in this desert! The baboons of […]
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Two Tall Trees There’s a window in the bathroom and if you stand at the bottom of the […]
Sandeep Saxena wants us to grow our food in forests By Anandi Sharan Sandeep Saxena graduated from the […]
Someone I know. Someone you know. The quintessence of moral failure. by Philip Hall The cast system is […]
Socialism? What are we talking about? By Dominic Tweedie The communists mean to show the way – as […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the second episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
Now AI is Coming for the Middle-Class By Emil Blake In 1925 a Russian economist, called Nikolai Kondratiev […]
But now we have another pivotal moment. By Bryan Greetham Before the Second World War a German chemist […]
What do you do when the cure does you more harm than the disease? You stop taking it. […]
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? By Phil Hall The British Disease is passive aggression. It is class hatred […]
The demoralisation of grassroots Labour. By Paul Halas The Stroud Labour CLP meeting to nominate its preferred leadership […]
Celebrations in the streets of Dharavi, Mumbai By Andy Hall The principle practice in street photography, and why […]
By Phil Hall Covid-19 arrives, We sit at home for a long while. The cities empty, the air […]
By Yogesh Patel To the undertakers A preview of myself is a hidden mirror in a selfie mirror. […]
by James Tweedie, Plymouth, May 6th 2020 The one-word answer is: “Brexit.” The Labour Party backed the losing […]
By Paul Halas On my very infrequent visits to Paris, passing Drancy Station on the RER suburban line […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the first episode in the comic series by Dan Pearce.
By Phil Hall In China the barefoot doctors believed in prevention rather than cure. So how can we […]
By Paul Halas Our television has led a charmed life in recent weeks. Every time a Conservative minister […]
“we hope we have not cast a Pearl before the swine, but set a glass before the grateful […]