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A Shocking Loss: Remembering My Boss
“On Sunday we got an email telling us that our boss - the Head Teacher of our school - was dead. Heart attack. Unexpected and devastating. A total shock.”
Forced Alienation: On Being Swept Under The Rug
“I was asked by a colleague on Friday if everything was alright? They hadn’t seen me much around the school, and when they did, I didn’t seem my usual self. They said I seemed to be on my own a lot. Quiet. Not talkative. I looked like something was wrong.”
Observations From The Front
“It has been a week now since being thrust back into a busy school full of nearly a thousand people after six months of living safely and solitarily in lockdown. Here are some observations from the frontline of Covid 19, in one of the UK’s worst areas for infection, Birmingham, just days before we return to a stricter, nationally imposed, lockdown…”
DaN on Dissident Island Radio
“Last week I was interviewed by Pinda at Dissident Island Radio…”
To Bury Me Alive Again
“I am not merely returning to work tomorrow, I and all other teachers across the country are returning to be pawns in a political stunt that will put much of the country at great risk under the propagandist illusion of a moral imperative to get children back in school.”
Scene Through A Windscreen
“In March, for a few weeks, we saw a glimpse of our potential. That glimpse scared those in charge, and they are desperate to get things back to the way they were so we don’t get any funny ideas about restructuring our lives to be more focused on people instead of profits.”
The Fading Illusions of a Former World
“these last five months has allowed some of those illusions to fall apart when juxtaposed against the big new question: but is it worth risking Covid for?”
Getting a Tattoo in the Time of Covid
“So why the tattoo? Why go to a place in close quarters with other people (albeit masked and visored) and let them cut you open, giving yourself an open wound and adding the possibility of other infection to the list of pre-existing risks in your life and risk Covid in the process? Honestly, the answer is a fuck it sense of fatalism brought about by the disregard to my, and all other teacher and students’, health and safety shown by the government.“
Ten Years Dead
“Big things and little things - an absence, but an eternal presence also. Present by his lack of presence. A hole in reality, all too noticeable.“
STAY ALERT
“just as I was about to record With Burning Anger, I found the demo I’d made and forgotten of Stay Alert. Once I remembered how to play it, got it in a key I could actually sing (the original key blew my voice out so bad my throat hurt for two weeks!), and finished off the lyrics, I was ready. This week I recorded them both and decided to release them today on Bandcamp“
Good News in Dark Times
“suddenly with a lot of new free time on my hands and trying to turn the lemons of coronavirus into lemonade, I decided to step up the thinking about it seriously and start writing in the academic style now to see if I still could. “
Rethinking Kindness
“Kindness in punk didn’t mean smiles and flowers. It wasn’t instagram-vapid and hashtag-ready, it was rough around the edges and sullen. It swore, it was prickly, but its heart was big and definitely in the right place. The song might yell “fuck you” and the fighting in the mosh pit might seem aggressive, but if you needed someone to help you out when the world had turned its back, there was no better place.”
Idea for a Twilight Zone Episode…
“Don’t you see? It’s all wrong! Can’t you hear it? It even says The Simpsons at the start - why would this be the theme for the six o’clock news?”
Take Me Out To The Ballgame
“I didn’t realise how much I was missing baseball as a part of my Spring and Summer ritual until it came back this weekend.”
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