If You Should Win
If you get your wayIf the foreigners are kept at bayIf we wind the drawbridge and mine the beachesReach a state of monocultureCreate an all-white social structure Would your wages rise? Or would you find to your surprise your payslip doesn’t grow
Debating neurodiversity
Janine Booth replies to John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone’s post, Neurodiversity – what exactly does it mean?, on Mad in the UK’s website. Throwing the neurodivergent baby out with the bathwater John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone have contributed an interesting
Ta-ra Tories
Ta-ra Penny
Let’s hope that the end of Ms Mordaunt
turns out to be some sort of portent
of Conservative death
the Tories’ last breath
and spares us from more of their torment
Nancy Astor: another statue to fling in the sea
Nancy Astor
in fancy plaster
in copper not in alabaster
Disabled people: Labour manifesto offers little
Labour’s general election manifesto offers little more than vague mentions to disabled people, and drops many of the party’s specific pledges.
War, Occupation and Mental Health
A personal view published in Asylum magazine, Summer 2024.
Middle-aged Kicks Charity Single
Janine Booth parodies the The Undertones’ classic Teenage Kicks (with permission) as Middle-aged Kicks: “I’m getting older, getting older, right – Get middle-aged kicks then an early night”.
Musical accompaniment by Robb Johnson and Ali Gavan. Recorded at Brighton Road Studios, Hassocks. Cover art by J. Roberts.
All proceeds to Women’s Aid to help their work in helping women and children escaping domestic abuse.