Richard Pooley8 min readA cry of anger from the back of beyondThe death last month of Shaw Sheet, the magazine I used to write for, made me review some of the 89 articles I contributed to it. One...
Michael Carberry9 min readA Fundamental Problem: the unholy alliance between fundamentalist religion and extremist politics. What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...
Richard Pooley7 min readPresident Macron’s “mad” promise will be kept. Notre Dame will reopen by Christmas.There wasn’t the usual levity when I walked into my French village’s southern boulangerie early on Tuesday morning. The queue was quiet...
Jean-Luc Barbannneau10 min readLost in the Labyrinth of LanguageThis little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,
Richard Pooley8 min readAs Others See Us...and HistoryIn “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...