Axbridge News: The annual Progressive Supper has been provisionally planned for Saturday, December 2nd, 2023.
The annual charity dining event attracted more than 150 people last December raising £2,000 for local charities. These were: The…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: The nasally voice with its Texas-lite accent that makes sense of MAGA and USA politics
Radio Review: Americast, BBC Radio 4 During the strange period of recent American history when Donald Trump was president and…
Rapscallion Magazine feature: goal keepers – the good, the bad and the downright dodgy
In 2008 Stretchmark Theatre produced the one man show Dodgy Keeper. This is an essay written at the time on…
Harry The Spiv: Will you be my FaceBook Friend?
Harry The Spiv: Will you be my FaceBook Friend? By Harry Mottram Will you be my Facebook friend? Will…
Strawberry Line Times feature: Bridgwater Railway Hotel
This article was written in 2014 for the Bridgwater Mercury. One of the scandals of recent times is the neglect…
Rapscallion Magazine: Loose leaves or tea bag, milk or lemon? And was George Orwell right? The arguments over the making of the perfect cup of tea
Loose leaves or tea bag, milk or lemon? And was George Orwell right? The arguments over the making of the…
Bath Voice Theatre Review: Alan Ayckbourn’s play Relatively Speaking at the Theatre Royal Bath brilliantly lampoons marital infidelity in a terribly British comedy of manners
Review: Relatively Speaking, Theatre Royal Bath. 16 Jan 2023 Ten bob notes, bus conductors and posters of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Robin Herford’s sparkling…
ICSM Business Cryptocurrency News: Following the FTX ‘Ponzi Scheme’ scandal, advocates of cryptocurrencies spin good news about the sector – but Coinbase slash jobs as crisis deepens
By Harry Mottram: Reuters have reported that Coinbase have laid off 950 workers as the market for cryptocurrencies suffers problems following…
A personal view on newspaper groups as Reach’s ‘shares tank on profit warning’ – chalk up another victory for defeatism as management and owners ‘manage decline’
By Harry Mottram: As a one-time news reporter and feature writer at some of Reach’s titles – formerly Trinity Mirror –…
ICSM Business News: concerns mount over the future of football league club after ’20-year-old tycoon’ puts in ownership bid – plus a long list of football clubs who have gone bust
By Harry Mottram: The collapse of the rugby union club Worcester Warriors has triggered problems for the League One football…