I’m so slack on this website, so while updating the ‘about’ page just now I thought I’d post some links to some of the short writing I’ve done recently mainly on my Substack page, or book reviews for the excellent web-magazine Writers’ Mosaic.
Short essays:
Writing for a change — my first foray into Substack (2024)
Christmas: Sensuous Materialism
Putting the soul into socialism
Jimmy Baldwin, Malcolm X and Dave changed me
The Bonfire Night Uprising (On the first ‘violent urban protest’ by black British youth, in Chapeltown, Leeds, in 1975, which I was falsely accused of inciting. Our trial at Leeds Assizes took place 50 years ago this summer.)
Book reviews:
Review of Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard, Penguin Viking, 2026
Review of Ferdinand Denis’s novel Concrete Dreams
Review of Caryl Phillips’s novel Another Man on the Street
Review of Empire without End by Dr Imaobong Umoforen
Review of CLR James – A Life Beyond Boundaries by John L Williams
And then I found this interview I did with my friend Dr Danny Evans, author of Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil Ware 1936-9, about writing the biography of Arthur France MBE, which you can listen to here if you want to.
