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Never Again Means Never Again

Posted on 21 April 2026 by Oli Spleen

Words: Oli Spleen Feature image: Corrina Eastwood, March for Palestine, Central London, October 11th 2025Images below: Eamonn Burke-Duggan, Hastings Jews for Justice protest Saturday 21st March 2026 On Saturday April 11, police outnumbered peaceful protesters on Hastings seafront as seven people were arrested simply for holding signs opposing genocide. In February the High Court ruled…

Walking the Border of Gaza

Posted on 8 August 202529 August 2025 by Merlin Betts

Writing: Merlin Betts. Image: Archie Lauchlan. Walking the border of Gaza… well, a similar length anyway. The Stade to the De La Warr is about 9km, not far off the length of the Gaza Strip’s southern border with Egypt. Gaza’s longer border is 51km – that’s basically from here to Brighton. I made this the…

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Beginnings

Out of the primordial gooo
A beginning
Birth red and writhe like maggot
On the untrod surface of its earth
Gasp the first untainted breath
Flush lung from liquid’s grasp
And writhe toward your unknown future
All was written from scratched beginnings
Fragments scraped from disparate corners
No truths true but paradox
All logic mere invention
All walls built with nothing but
Bricks and mortar / sand and water
And all sand slips away in time
Structures crumble
Empires fall
And life begins again
Of a new primordial rubble

Oli Spleen, 2000

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