Shorts
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 […]
The Bonfire Night Uprising in Chapeltown, Leeds, on 5.11.1975
It’s now 50 years since 11 black youths and me were arrested during or after the first uprising by black British youth. Rage against the police erupted in Chapeltown, Leeds, in the north of England, on Bonfire Night in 1975. Youths attacked an unmarked police car as it drove through the crowd on Spencer Place […]
Big Flame: New Movements, New Politics
This book is in print at last. It was in November 2010 that I took a trip from Leeds, England, to Bologna, Italy, to interview Marcello Dall’Aglio for my first foray into Big Flame’s history. Bologna was cold and grey and the magnificent mansion where Marcello lived and worked didn’t have much heating. He rented […]
Speaking Truth To Power — The Life and Times of an African Caribbean British Man (Arthur France MBE)
Arthur France MBE is a hero of mine. He is a founder of Black Power in Leeds, of the Leeds West Indian Carnival and the New World Steel Orchestra. I promised Arthur and Tattra France that I’d write his biography, and the only good thing about the Covid Pandemic was that it gave me the […]