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Mike

Bukowski made me do it

About Me


I have a day job and am occasionally a freelance journalist. I run something called YABLOKO MAGAZINE . I’m also a member of Amnesty International, the National Union of Journalists, the Green Party and Q’s (formerly Bee’s) pool & snooker club, which sadly no longer exists. When I’m not out saving the world, I like to hold aloft those treasured values of truth and decency that in these dark times have deserted so many of our fellow, so-called human beings. Every day is a battle against the forces of avarice, twisted logic and social psychosis.
Some of my work...
BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH article: Faithless (Neo-Atheism & the Attack on God)
PRESS GAZETTE article: How to choose the right journalism course
YABLOKO MAGAZINE article: Renegade Intelligence (David Shayler versus the New World Order)
YABLOKO MAGAZINE article: Chavez, The Left & The Subversion of Free Speech
YABLOKO MAGAZINE article: Iraq & Memories of Tyranny
BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH article: Marx of the Cross (aka God-fearing & Loathing in Las Vegas)
BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH article: Brought to Book (Get Into Reading project)
NULL HYPOTHESIS (The Journal of Unlikely Science) article: Microwaves Go To War
PRESS GAZETTE: Catholic hierarchy 'disgraced' itself by ignoring Pope's exhortation
NERVE MAGAZINE: Liverpool, The Yuppie Takeover
Check blog for updates. Anyone who wants to pay me to write something will be warmly welcomed into my loving embrace.

Philosophy memo #1:
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive...


Philosophy memo #2:
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled...

I came into the world in...
...on the anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy (1963) and the day Margaret Thatcher resigned (1990).
I'm a cross-breed of English, Irish and Polish extraction.

My Interests



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Music, politics, Liverpool FC, journalism, photography, whiskey, psychology, architecture, 1960's/world cinema

Daily Zen
ECOTRICITY



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Salvador Dali: Poetry of America: The Cosmic Athletes, 1943

WWLD?

Music:



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Television:

Current TV, Comedy, Documentaries, West Wing, Sopranos, The Daily Show, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Yes, American culture has me in a hegemonic headlock.

Books:

Among the books scattered around my mind and my bedroom floor at the moment are...

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Links:
Modern Toss
Village Voice
Cigar Aficionado
Guerilla News
Rolling Stone
Will Self: Psychogeography
Anarchist News
Narco News Bulletin
The Guardian newspaper
Private Eye
The Ecologist
Brooklyn Rail

Heroes:

Hunter S Thompson
"Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors."
Christopher Hitchens
"There is a utilitarian case for free expression. It recognizes that the freedom to speak must also be insisted on for the person who thinks differently, because it is pointless to support only free speech for people who agree with you. It is not only unprincipled to want that, but also self-defeating. For your own sake, you need to know how other people think."
Bill Shankly
"The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life"
Che
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
Subcommandante Marcos
"The great world power has not yet found the weapon to destroy dreams."
George Orwell
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Edward R Murrow
"All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man."
Patrick Henry
"The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
Buenaventura Durruti

My Blog

Beyond Belief

The Big Issue in the NorthWith Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens launching an intellectual assault on religion, Mike Cotgreave looks at the options open to those who no longer believe.Religion...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:30:00 PST

Is Quentin Tarantino Rapist No1?

Tarantino comes to town... But not everyone was pleased to see him......
Posted by Mike on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:57:00 PST

Jesse Jackson comes to Liverpool

Reverend Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader & America's first black presidential candidate, visited Liverpool's new International Slavery Museum....
Posted by Mike on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:16:00 PST

Port Sunlight

War MemorialLever Art GalleryNapoleon's Death MaskChinese Dog (Ming Dynasty)Hermaphrodite Statue...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:57:00 PST

...Liverpool or Rome

Rome, July 2007View from hotel roomView from the very top of the VaticanThe Pantheon, the great Roman survivorPolitical graffiti: the slogans of the communists and anarchists compete with those of the...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:34:00 PST

Notes from the North

Saturday 14th April 2007And so to the Cornerhouse gallery in Manchester for an exhibition of Cold War-era photograpy entitled Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind The Berlin Wall. Shot by photographers...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:35:00 PST

Liverpool: WORKING PROGRESS

All pix © Mike Cotgreave 2007Floating in the middle of the Albert Dock is Working Progress (Fountain of Light) by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Inspired by Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:00:00 PST

Crosby Beach: ANOTHER PLACE

All pix © Mike Cotgreave 2007       ...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:41:00 PST

LONDON

So my big adventure in the Big Smoke has come to an end. Spent a great week in our nations capital, the belly of the beast, laying the foundations of my media empire. My thanx go t...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:07:00 PST

Photography: LIVERPOOL

All pix © Mike Cotgreave 2007             Bill the accordion-player, Bold Street...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:35:00 PST