by Andy Dodd | Dec 11, 2014 | On My Mind, Politics
Imagine you’re playing a game of Cluedo. You’re pretty certain that Professor Plumb committed the crime using the candlestick in the library. But when you make your accusation, your opponent simply takes the cards out of the sealed envelope, ignores the...
by Andy Dodd | Dec 2, 2014 | Fiction, Poetry
“It’s Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It” is a poem that I wrote in hurry, ironically whilst rushing to catch a plane to make my own small contribution to global warming. Even worse, I was coming up with couplets and phrases whilst sitting in the...
by Andy Dodd | Nov 19, 2014 | On My Mind, Politics
Nigel Farage likes to be seen as anti-establishment, but his party is anti-political in any constructive sense. It is a measure of how far conventional politics has failed that his candidate in Rochester talks about being in government whilst proposing measures...
by Andy Dodd | Nov 9, 2014 | Politics
In 2004, Barak Obama burst onto the nationwide political stage with a legendary speech that would become known as the audacity of hope. A decade on, it seems that those who hoped the Obama presidency would be a launchpad for a different kind of America, indeed a...
by Andy Dodd | Oct 27, 2014 | Reviews
This is going to be a review of Steve Hackett and Genesis Revisited. But before we go dancing with volcanoes and moonlit knights, I want to take you on a different, perhaps unexpected, trip down music’s memory lane. Back in 1983 when Nick Beggs was playing...
