Deus ex machina: Goin’ hungry

It was all rather matter of fact when she asked for seconds. Just a couple of extra fish fingers and … More

Deus ex machina: Hope and Truth talk of Power

I spoke of Power to Truth, and Truth giggled at my innocence. Truth let loose a belly laugh, and asked, … More

Deus ex machina: Moments

There was never a moment when I chose to be hungry. There was never a moment when I chose to … More

Deus ex machina: Monopoly Man

Standing silently upon a tall building’s top floor, a man stares out surveying a city he knows well, or at … More

Deus ex machina: god from the machine

‘In this context, the term deus ex machina was chosen too for the possible connotations of the translated words, which lead to questions seeking to determine what could be the ‘machine’, and the ‘god’?’

So Retro… or, Why I am protesting on 20th June

‘When did this become a country that took pride in putting ‘poor’ people on TV to be gawped at and labelled as ‘the problem’, and when did we become a viewing public that revels in arguing over who was the most awful scrounging scumbag of the lot of them?’

Poem: The forgotten

Line us up. Line us up and check us in. Check us out and hand us our cheques. “You. Not … More