Hay Festival abandons freedom of expression and association!
Oliver2024-05-25T14:51:26+01:00By what measures does the Hay Festival organisation [@HayFestival @HayFestivalWire] judge contributions to our national [...]
Why aren’t the Little Englanders more introvert by nature?
Oliver2023-01-10T19:20:06+00:00So there I was, walking into my local village hall in a small rural village [...]
Pie in the English sky!
Oliver2022-09-08T13:25:23+01:00https://tinyurl.com/2p8sajxv Authors now, more than ever before, need to keep banging on about freedom of [...]
The Scourge of the ‘English Empire’!
Oliver2022-04-20T06:32:29+01:00So there we were in Port Arthur, Tasmania, two English tourists eagerly trying to track [...]
Cancel Culture terrorising publishing!
Oliver2022-03-25T05:21:09+00:00So Philip Pullman, President of the #SocietyOfAuthors, could get cancelled because he has shown support [...]
Looking in from afar at the UK ‘banana republic’
Oliver2025-11-20T18:02:07+00:00https://tinyurl.com/v9bk74j7 Allister Heath is a renowned British journalist, one of very few, who writes for [...]
Litter is pollution. Government vs The People ?
Oliver2022-01-24T19:16:07+00:00When are we going to tackle our own grotesque little part of our sickening global [...]
We should celebrate and support our leading ladies!
Oliver2022-01-07T15:36:39+00:00With so much in our society being torn down and ripped up by supposedly 'entitled' [...]
How should crime writers tackle the lack of policing in our society?
Oliver2021-12-20T15:35:03+00:00The Trade Union representing the UK’s Border Force (coastguard national security agency) is currently taking [...]
Authors try to cancel ‘cancel culture’
Oliver2021-12-08T17:38:36+00:00All authors would naturally fight for the right to free speech, especially when that right [...]