Civil Rights: your rights, my rights, everyone’s rights! Hello friend, Day 49… A couple of blogs ago, I mentioned one of my core values as being ‘justice.’ I thought it might be an interesting exercise to look at some of my other core values. Front and centre are ‘civil rights.’ Now, I don’t pretend to
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Coronavirus: Hello friend, Day 46… I got a new flask after about 10 days. They did try to give me a second-hand flask on a couple of occasions. Eugh! No thanks – who knows what it’s been used for (see 3 blogs after 2020-04). This one actually works! The first one in 8 years. Due
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Hope: Is ‘impossible’ an impossibility? Hello friend, Day 44… Some time ago, I had an idea to start a section called ‘Graham on…;’I got as far as writing one piece on ‘Hope’ – that was 5 years ago (me and my bright ideas!). I guess, the blog took over as most of them are ‘Graham
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Hello friend, Day 43… This is another one of those blogs I’ve been meaning to do for a while; given the circumstances, it has never felt so relevant. What does it mean to be free? You are all (mostly) confined to your homes. Do you feel free? Do you equate freedom with free movement? In
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Secret Barrister: …bunting and tinsel! Hello friend, Day 39… About a year ago I was recommended a book written by ‘The Secret Barrister’ – the title eludes me. I did promise to put up a blog about this book in my reply to the comment post – sorry for the delay. The Secret Barrister is
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Hello friend, Day 37… One of the opportunities this lockdown has given me is to ‘re – Kondo’ my cell. Now, if you know what that is a reference to – you’re my kind of people. You should see my sock drawer! So, buried deep within voluminous layers of reconstituted wood pulp was an application
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Hello friend, Day 35… I’ve pretty much caught up with my blogs so I’m going to drop to 3 or 4 per week – if there’s that much to write about when you’re on 23 hour lockdown. I got my birthday cards the next day; although, as the card shops are all shut, they were
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17 Years: or, day 6,205 of my lockdown. Hello friend, Day 32… So, here we are again… another year gone. I’ve now spent nearly a third of my life in prison. It sounds inconceivable when I put it in those terms. So many things lost, so many things broken, so much waste, lives undone. The
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Hello friend, Day 31… Yes folks, today (23rd April) is my birthday. Total cards – zero. Not that none has been sent – I am expecting some – it’s just the ‘lockdown post.’ As birthday’s go, this was one of the oddest – ever for here. Twenty three hours behind my door, locked in (literally
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Hello friend, Day 30… Article 3: this was a letter from a prisoner located at a Scottish prison. The Scottish Prison Service have recommended that he completes an offending behaviour program called ‘Moving Forward, Making Change’. Unfortunately, for him, he maintains his innocence but is still required to participate with other prisoners who are guilty
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