My two most recent play publications - Divine Vision: William Blake in Felpham and The Pilgrim's Progress are available from @TSLpub The Pilgrim's Progress Step into an unforgettable journey with this epic adaptation of John Bunyan’s timeless allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this dramatization brings to the stage the tale of Christian, who flees the City of Destruction on a perilous quest to reach the Celestial City. Guided by Evangelist, Christian encounters a host of vivid characters—both friends and foes—including the treacherous Mr Worldly Wiseman, the loquacious Talkative, and the fearsome Apollyon. We follow Christian’s trials as he battles through the murky Slough of Despond, faces persecution at the chaotic Vanity Fair, and confronts the enormous Giant Despair in the menacing Doubting Castle. Meanwhile, his family endures their own hardships in his absence, adding a poignant counterpoint to his epic journey. tslbooks.uk/product/the-pilg… Divine Vision: William Blake in Felpham London, 1800. Things aren’t going too well for William Blake. He lacks work, his wife worries over the bills, he’s seeing visions of the Apocalypse, and his planned epic poem on the divine remains unwritten. When Blake gets an offer from famous poet William Hayley to leave London and settle in a cottage at the seaside village of Felpham, he jumps at the chance. In Felpham, things don’t quite work out the way Blake had them planned… tslbooks.uk/product/divine-v… The cover designs are by brilliant @MiddlesexUni BA Graphic Design graduate Phillip Block.

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A question we’ve all asked through the fog of a morning hangover.

“Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards” - The generosity of it!

In 2026 you can get arrested for not printing a train ticket. It’s a form of societal insanity.

What a terrifying picture. A film would be lit and framed like this to appear sinister. That Starmer's team thinks it's a positive look is worrying.

Perhaps the biggest takeaway from this is the erosion of parental authority. Until recently, parents decided what their kids watched, when they went to bed and put the light out, what they ate, who they saw. Now, parents don't seem to be able to direct a single aspect of their children's lives. The question is, why? What social phenomena or ideologies have brought this about?

Roger Lewis on how Diana Dors & Elizabeth Taylor are similar and different in Erotic Vagrancy. It’s currently just £3.99 for Kindle & there’s nothing more entertaining you could buy for that money.

For goodness sake, these maniacs won’t let it go.

YouTube has lowered the barriers to entry for everyone to learn about the world and pursue their hobbies. From playing the guitar to discovering history by stumbling upon documentaries made by enthusiastic amateurs. Shutting children off from the world will be utterly miserable.

What would be the sense? About 3 kids use it, and they’re beyond hope.

They want to confiscate your kids.

Prison time is prison time and is difficult for everyone - these 4 will come out to NGO jobs, book contracts and paid speakers engagement. Thats not what happens to working class people in prison they come out to homelessness, stigma & prejudice, high percentage go on to commit other crimes. Dont feel sorry for these.

Russell T Davies's Tip Toe (2026) wants to be a searing warning about modern Britain. Instead, it plays like a fever dream in which suburban football dads suddenly decide to lynch a gay neighbour from a lamppost. Watchable nonsense, perhaps - but nonsense all the same. letterboxd.com/jmcfire/film/…

"Alongside villains, his characters were often sidekicks or loners..invariably confirmed bachelors, almost never in relationships. They were wistful, cynical, and somewhat removed..They had an air of sophistication, but also a dangerous tendency to think themselves superior."

Richard Burgon voted in favour of the key provisions of the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill 2021 (which expanded the terrorist connection sentencing powers).

🎵 I'll do anything For you dear anything🎵

I can’t watch him. I may have to go into a monastery if he becomes PM.

She genuinely presents herself as someone who helped choose Charles as King, as if she’s some Holy Roman Empire elector. It was a rubber stamping, Emily, you had no say!

That Stevenson thinks anyone but true believers in her cause would give a damn is rather quaint. Life in a plastic bubble.

This case, in which the perp’s parents handed him to the police, further puts the Digwa family’s actions into perspective. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d2…