"Green, they'd be green, just how my own grandpa used to have 'em," he sighs.

My dad and I have come to the mutual realisation that he can't force me to help him out in the garden. 

Throughout my many travels, to all sorts of exotic lands, never before have I seen a diet so extraordinary as that of the snamuh.

Discussing racism is of paramount importance; it is also a sensitive and controversial issue. 

I drink the elderflower air, 

poured by the 4am sky

Green are the strands of the winner's laurel;

green is the step of his podium as he stares over the crowd

We come in droves, frothing at the mouth and baying for blood.

Our enemy invisible, stretched across the world like the taut skin of a drum. 

"But Dad, a dog is the animal for me - 

I'll take him for walks and I'll make him his tea."

We act like we're pleasantly thrust together instead of a family bound by grief and love. 

1. Come On Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners

What can I say? As soon as this comes on you're grabbing my hands and spinning me around with that beautiful smile on your face and that joyful laugh rising in your throat.

A poem is when a scattering of swallows suddenly form a perfect v.

A poem is the angle which makes dew on a rose petal look like diamonds.

It’s tempting to compare The Favourite, the latest film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, to the present state of world leadership; this pitch-black comedy of manners is set in the court of eighteenth-century monarch Queen Anne . . .

Teenagers are the ones who change history. They have to be. It’s kids with lumps in their throats, bright blue sparks in their fingertips and purple-braced snarls screaming for equality who are the ones who achieve it, their words the upbeat crashdrum of change.