Paul Connolly
Writer
Poetry: 100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc
Poems on BBC
Charles Causley, Walking at Night & two Bridport Prize shortlists
Magna Carta Comp (3rd)
Best of the Net Nominee
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
- And you should…
- A redistributive policy from Reform. Taking money away from poor families to incentivise alcohol consumption… I suspect if you gave them Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal they’d consider it a serious social policy
- Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer... The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit. This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
- Expect a similar reduction in the price of cigarettes, funded by slashing smoking cessation programmes, or tax breaks for betting shops and casinos paid for by cancelling all forms of addiction counselling. Grift and ethical turpitude wrapped up in the idiot bluffness of roast beef and Old John Bull
- Ibsen. Sunday nights on BBC 4. A reminder of why the Beeb was once great - and why if it stops tacking with every right-wing breeze that blows it might be so again
- Look at the amazing casts! I am almost glad though that there’s no John Gabriel Borkman. No one will ever displace the image I have of Paul Scofield in the role. The most astonishing performance I’ve ever seen in a theatre. A visitation almost. A haunting. He seemed to channel huge elemental power
- Here’s the whole of that Arena documentary of Scofield. The greatest
