Am Writing
Crisp snow
Outside
Under a cloudy, blue sky
With friends
Vinegar and salt
Outside
The chip shop
We are drunk
Loud music
Inside
The Social Club
We all dance
New baby
Inside
A calm hospital
All renewed
Quiet grief
With former lovers
At the funeral
Remembering a friend
Together.
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Being ill or caring for someone you love in their illness is hard enough without narcissists pouring their malformed proofs into your ear.
Just as Punk broke, a cheap chicken, a flat pan, cheap-shit breadcrumbs, pineapple rings and their syrup out of a tin, and white vinegar all added up to absolute heaven in a village in Hampshire as 1976 as teenage kicks kicked in.
Dan Hodges is an English newspaper columnist and son of Dame Glenda Jackson the former Labour Party MP. Dan writes for The Daily Mail. This means that Dan must represent the views of Mittel-Ingerland. Dan is very much not alone in his confusion about why other people don’t think being racist is a good thing. This is what Dan wrote in public today.
The phrase “I will never apologise for who I am or where I come from” has been associated with ‘toxic patriotism’ (racism) for a long, long time now. It has been the kind of language used on Facebook memes superimposed over an image of the flag of St George with a roaring male lion faded in. I hope that the England Men’s football team in the European Championship played across Europe in 2021 has changed that.
Writing my novel, The Water Meadow Man (free chapters here for what they’re worth), took years and turned out to be an incredibly dispiriting experience. So, now I’m writing another one.
I made this with old footage from Brazil, England and Germany from the days when I used to travel in glorious freedom. Before Brexit. Before the Covid pandemic. I made the music at home.
Poignant, hopeful