It was the beginning of the Dust Bowl Era. My Popsey was about 10 years old and lived with his Daddy the sheriff, and his brother on a small farm in Faunsdale, Alabama. His Mama had “gone to pieces” as folk called it then, when she was around 40 and…

As the first day of the UK Rail strike goes on, #generalstrike has begun trending on Twitter. The UK is growing weary of the Tory Party. Scotland wasted no time pursuing a new IndyRef23 campaign whilst a weakened Boris is bleeding in the water. The Irish are not happy…

Running a restaurant — now that is show-biz at its highest form. Grinding work. Fanny Trollope’s is a small brasserie in Finneston, a very busy and hip part of the city of Glasgow. They have been there for like twenty years or something and I commend them on still delivering…

A Faerie waylaid me on the way home from the pub. I was taken into the grasses and lost unto Mankind for what seemed a thousand year or more. When I came home it was still Tuesday. I rushed to youtube to make sure Waterloo Sunset had still been made…

We took our two daughters out for a bit of shopping and ended up piercing their ears. It was that or agree to sitting in a movie theatre for two hours and I would rather eat groundchuck nuts than do that. We were out for a family day. I took…

Get your disgusting sausage-law hands the hell off of our bodies — It was 4am here and I was sleepless so I checked my email. There was one from my mother that I thought would be a description of her new home. Instead, she told me about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court paper about overturning Roe v Wade. For the…

Or: How it feels making my weekly pilgrimage to the only Jewish Deli in my country. The Jewish Virtual Library estimated a Jewish population of 291,000 in 2012, making Britain’s Jewish community the fifth largest in the world. This equates to 0.43% of the population of the United Kingdom. Up…