Pound Notes: Stephen Pound
Published: September 16, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
Standing in line waiting to board the EasyJet flight to Gatwick I was feeling completely powerless and only the hands on the clock seemed to be moving, so I felt …
All articles by: Stephen Pound
Pound Notes – Stephen Pound
Published: July 26, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
I’m never sure if anyone ever reads these ramblings and musings but if they do they will not need to be the most forensically skilled Kremlinologist to discern that I …
Pound Notes – Stephen Pound
Published: July 2, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
I write these words with a feeling of great sadness and a sense of terrible foreboding. Having just come from St Margaret’s Westminster where the memorial service for Jo Cox …
Pound Notes – Stepehn Pound
Published: May 27, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
Imagine, if you can, my sheer delight when I was invited to attend the inauguration – at no cost to the UK taxpayer! – of Dr Tsai Ing-wen as the …
Pound Notes – Stephen Pound
Published: April 30, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
Belmarsh and Dartmoor to Wormwood Scrubs but Whitemoor was a new one to me when I made my way to March via Peterborough this month.
Pound Notes – Stephen Pound
Published: April 1, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
Life on the lower decks of the Westminster ship of fools has been febrile indeed.
Pound Notes – Stephen Pound
Published: March 6, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
When you say that the Shannon is a majestic untamed force of nature sweeping across the island of Ireland, you might be forgiven for assuming that the reference is to …
Pound Notes – Stephen Pound
Published: February 6, 2016
Written by Stephen Pound
Marsupial mayhem from Echo and the wombat men
Pound Notes – Stephen Pound
Published: December 4, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Sunday morning at the Royal British Legion
Stephen Pound
Published: November 7, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
In the City, still frigging in the (Libor) rigging
Mood music and wise words: let’s work together
Published: October 11, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
After Labour’s conference, Stephen Pound looks to the future with cautious optimism but warns there is no joy in sects and sectarianism
Stephen Pound
Published: September 12, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Too important to lose: oh don’t stop the carnival
Story in want of a human portrait
Published: August 7, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Gerry Fitt And The SDLP by Sarah Campbell (Manchester University Press, £75)
The Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn, said today….
Published: July 26, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Labour was comprehensively defeated at the 2015 election. Stephen Pound does not see the left-wing leadership candidate pointing the way to a comeback
Stephen Pound
Published: July 2, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
My late father used to tell how panic swept the streets of London during the Second World War when large numbers of soldiers disembarked from trains at Kings Cross and …
Like I’ve never been gone…
Published: May 29, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Stephen Pound pays tribute to comrades who lost their seats on May 7and reflects on the devastation of defeat
Dancing around the May polls – and a labour landmark
Published: May 4, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Stephen Pound recalls the events of the Haymarket Affair and a foul miscarriage of justice
Inner kindness of Dennis Skinner
Published: April 4, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Has the scourge of the Tories achieved national treasure status? Stephen Pound elaborates
Legendary comedian who offered alternatives
Published: March 24, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Stephen Pound nominates the still highly influential Lenny Bruce for the political hall of fame
In the cold Killarney rain
Published: March 7, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Stephen Pound reflects on the recent conference of the Irish Labour Party
Dirty tricks and the art of war
Published: February 7, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
The election campaign is going to get nastier but it was ever thus, says Stephen Pound
The weak aren’t a long time in politics
Published: January 10, 2015
Written by Stephen Pound
Stephen Pound offers some reasons to be positive ahead of May 7
Another battle of the Medway
Published: November 28, 2014
Written by Stephen Pound
Stephen Pound reads the runes after the Rochester by-election