Oliver's Poetry Garret

Devastated to hear of the death of my old friend Tim Cornwell, a fellow trainee reporter at the Hull Daily Mail from 1984-86. I am not going...

  

  Over the torrid past 21 months, Britain has changed almost beyond recognition - and not really for the better. One of these horrid Covid t...

  This is not an easy one to write. After all the terrible things that have happened this year - to me and to millions of others - it was mo...

The Reopen Madeira Drive Campaign - launched in early June by myself and my partner Laura King - has been victorious! Brighton & Hove Ci...

For more than three years I have been trying to pass my motorcycle test, and when lockdown started I saw it as a golden opportunity to get t...

[PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR LATEST UPDATE] Sunday, 9 August Update: Great protest today by Mods and Rockers at Madeira Drive! Large numbers of M...