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BELK: A Ballad of Reading in Gaol (full version of essay published in Scottish Review of Books)

Martin Belk 6 March, 2012 author - Martin Belk / ONE BLOGS: Martin Belk

A Ballad of Reading in Gaol (Full version of Scottish Review of Books Essay.) By Martin Belk A young woman hangs back after my writing seminar at the new City of Glasgow College with a question: “What’s it like, ya’ know, in there?” For a second, I’m thrown, forgetting that …

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ONE blogs – JOHN CALDER – Man for Monday: AND NOW … REALITY

John Calder 19 May, 2010 author - John Calder / ONE BLOGS: John Calder, Man for Monday

The UK election is over. The bombast is past. Now, not only Britain, but most of the world is facing a future that will become ever more difficult even in the richer countries, and catastrophic in the poorer. While politicians, most of whom are profoundly ignorant about the realities of …

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ONE blogs – MARTIN BELK – WE’RE FALLING APART: IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT

Martin Belk 10 November, 2009 author - Martin Belk / ONE BLOGS: Martin Belk

I, for one, am very fatigued to keep hearing about the sad state of Western economies, particularly in the US and UK. Frankly, ‘SHUT UP ALREADY’, is my current sentiment. Every single bit of this so-called financial crisis is your fault, our fault, and now it’s high time to take …

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ONE blogs – MARTIN BELK – WHITE PAPERS and NET PIRACY: PACK OF WHITE LIES…

Martin Belk 15 June, 2009 author - Martin Belk / ONE BLOGS: Martin Belk

Tomorrow, the UK government is set to release a ‘white paper’ on piracy over the internet. The assertion is that internet piracy is costing thousands of jobs, and threatening the film, radio and TV industries, as well as life in the free West as we know it today. BULL.

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ONE blogs – JOHN CALDER – Monday Man: CALLING ALL INDEPENDENTS

John Calder 28 April, 2009 author - John Calder / ONE BLOGS: John Calder, Man for Monday

The absence of any confidence or even belief in the probity or competence of those who have been elected to govern, either on a national or regional level, is now so universal that the question must be asked: Why are so few people standing up to challenge those in power, …

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ONE blogs – MARTIN BELK – THE FIGHT WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

Martin Belk 27 March, 2009 author - Martin Belk / ONE BLOGS: Martin Belk

Once, when I was younger, back around 1979, I was sitting in Mrs Bland’s classroom beside my friend at the time Jay Hull. Jay and I’d been spending our morning lying about all the girls we’d done and were gonna do and had been told we could do (there was …

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