Some of you may have seen reports in the press of a minor disturbance in the Bull Ring, Birmingham on Sunday 8th January. The significance of the date is that it is “Plough Sunday”, traditionally the beginning of the agricultural year. Although the centre of Birmingham might seem an odd place to celebrate the beginning of the agricultural year, a celebration there was in the shape of performances by groups of Morris dancers. One of these…

[NB. This is poetry, it is meant to be read without punctuation – there has been no mistake.] trump is an american original and a throwback to the days when americans were bursting with confidence and energy and the sheer joy of freedom and life itself and  roark and just doing it and coming in with no apologies goddamn and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest of the gonadless churchy voices of the wimpy romneys…