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If you didn’t laugh

June 27, 2020 by Fay Young 1 Comment

Smiley face in the sky, 'probably for Captain Tom' Photo Jaybot CC BY-SA 2.0

“I wanted to upset everybody, including myself. Half the problem with the world is that half the people take themselves too seriously. The other half don’t take themselves seriously enough.”

Schools ahead of their time – and ours too

June 27, 2020 by Fay Young 1 Comment

What might we learn from the progressive thinking which gave power to local public health officers who understood local lives and deaths.

We’re all islanders in a pandemic

May 30, 2020 by Fay Young 2 Comments

Screenshot of Giles Perring broadcasting his event to the world from the Isle of Jura studio

In retrospect it seems eerily prophetic. Those faces framed in small screens, distant voices interconnecting in the ether. Yet that’s not really it. What interests Giles Perring is something simpler, but more profound than a Zoom event.

Strictly street dancing: a poem for a pandemic

May 16, 2020 by Fay Young Leave a Comment

Coronavirus brings powerful new poignancy to a remarkable poetry collection gathered by Edinburgh’s former Makar, Christine De Luca to celebrate “those who daily undertake some of the lesser-seen jobs in our city…night bus drivers, lollipop ladies, binmen…now on the ‘frontline’

Being 90: a poem for a pandemic

May 2, 2020 by Fay Young 1 Comment

‘Perversely, in the wars evoked by politicians it was the flaming of youth untimely snuffed out. Such thoughts emerge from a new poem, written before the pandemic, the reflections of a man in his tenth decade, walking by the river near his home. And wondering…’

Rapid response: social enterprise shows the way

April 25, 2020 by Fay Young 3 Comments

Cyrenians kitchen volunteers in masks and gloves preparing food for delivery

Government could learn from local community enterprises responding with astonishing speed and efficiency to get help and food where it is needed most – including NHS staff on the frontline

A gleam of starlight from the window: poetry for a pandemic

March 28, 2020 by Fay Young 1 Comment

The Moon, framed by trees, picture Tommy Perman

Poems and songs for Earth Hour on Friday March 27 (ICYMI)…”In our time of isolation, whether enforced or voluntary, there’s something comforting in that notion of stars clustering together for so very much longer than human life on earth.”

Your country needs EU – a journey led by poets

February 9, 2020 by Fay Young 5 Comments

Morning. Mourning? Brexit done? ‘It’s more like getting breakfast done, it starts again the very next day.’ We take a Sceptical journey led by poets.

In search of hope for 2020

January 7, 2020 by Fay Young Leave a Comment

New Year Fireworks by Patrick Down CC BY-NC 2.0

What message do extravagant fireworks displays send in an age of climate emergency and conflict? Fay Young chooses a poem for peace at New Year instead

No, no, NO Mr Johnson

December 4, 2019 by Fay Young Leave a Comment

Boris Johnson’s “serial mendacity” or constant lying is a big issue in this election so we go back to Andrew Neil’s interview of July 12 to highlight how he distorts facts and figures – and he’s still at it.

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