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Steve Regan is a writer who lives in New Brighton. He’s a performance poet and a rebel. He drinks in a pub he calls Hell’s Waiting Room and a late bar known as The Lost Weekend. Steve has an unusual take on modern life – as you’ll discover …

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November 2006 Archives

Racial justice ... and tough love

November 29, 2006 3:31 PM

SO-CALLED experts on a variety of social problems are given far too much prominence.
They are encouraged by broadcasters and newspapers to spread barmy ideas that just make existing problems worse.
Earlier this week I heard a militant racial justice women banging on about the ‘need’ for compensation to be given to the descendants of people sold into slavery under the British Empire.
She was parroting a load of jargon on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, and her tone was nasty, giving me the impression that she hated white people.

Fear, worry and people with strawberries up their bums

November 28, 2006 6:06 PM

THE world seems crowded, hectic and full of violence and hatred just now.
Everything that once defined our confident, comfortable identity as British people is being challenged – our Christianity, our support for our Armed Services, our sense of humour, sense of fair play etc.
According to the latest poll findings there is no longer even majority support for the continuance of the United Kingdom as a political entity, which is a great shame. Instead people want Scotland, England and Wales to go their own ways.

Only one thing lifts MY spirits.....

November 23, 2006 4:10 PM

I'M having a day of terrible discumbobulation.
I just can't face doing the many administrative and household things that need doing to stop the bailiffs coming after my goods and chattels and chaos reigning in my life.
I took a day's leave from work today just to get all the domestic duties done and dusted, but of course I've achieved sweet Fanny Adams.


How NOT to make a stylish entrance …

November 20, 2006 5:29 PM

PEOPLE often ask me where exactly is Hell’s Waiting Room, the pub I use in New Brighton.
Well, you’ll just have to work it out, I’m afraid.
But be assured, it is a real place, just not the real name.
Very few of the names in this blog are real, though, believe me, all the characters, bars, restaurants etc mentioned truly exist. What happens is real too, though I have to tone it down a bit.

Working class life in ‘North Baghdad’ (er, Birkenhead, that is)

November 14, 2006 5:44 PM

PEOPLE don’t come much commoner than little old me.
Born, bred and buttered in Wigan, I thought I knew what it meant to grow up in a rough, tough place on the wrong side of the tracks.
Then I moved to a job on the evening newspaper in Hull – and really discovered the meaning of the word “rough”.
But the North End of Birkenhead beats both Wigan and Hull in any contest for ragged-arsed, urban bleakness.
Commonly known as ‘North Baghdad’ by those in more fortunate parts of Wirral, this blighted spot is quite possibly the most resolutely working class enclave in Britain.
The middle classes have totally fled from it.

Why bugs on I'm A Celeb have more dignity than the media whores

November 13, 2006 6:00 PM

THERE was a stage musical, popular in the1970s, which contained the heartfelt plea: “Stop the world. I want to get off.”
My bet is that very many people feel exactly this way today because most of us are living our lives too hard, too fast and way too superficially.
But the fact is that life is hard and always has been for most people.
It's just that living as we do in a relatively peaceful and developed nation – though it’s one that is now very fearful about a terror attack by Islamist extremists – life does sometimes give the illusion of being easy, decadent even.

How the '08 culture clique is getting it wrong

November 9, 2006 3:18 PM

IF the 2008 organisers and their arty-farty hangers on are not careful they will have exhausted potential global interest in Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year well before the first Mongolian throat warbler has taken to the stage.
We are still more than a year away from the event but already Liverpool’s culture clique have launched a “taster” event of very dubious taste, complete with video projected onto balloons (impractical as well as passé), children dressed as angels (a whopping cliché), a gospel choir (so very predictable) and a mock up of a baroque boudoir (a desperate attempt to be sexy).
What the culture company, city council wallies and the local arts establishment are doing by holding such an event way too soon is demonstrating to the world just how very excitable and provincial they are being about the whole project.

This urban ragamuffin cheers up

November 7, 2006 5:14 PM

I WILL wait until all the PR flim-flam has settled down before commenting on the programme of events for Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year. Don’t hold your breath, folks…
But for now I can’t really judge the substance of this continuously hyped event for all the distractions of publicly-financed logo-launchers popping their clogs and marketing people having involuntary leaks from their urinary tracts.
Meanwhile, how did my bonfire night go? Well, very nicely, thanks for asking…

For the love of humanity…

November 4, 2006 4:11 PM

TODAY I shall mostly be writing about love, sort of.
Starting point: we are living through confusing times.
On the one hand we Brits are now much ruder to each other than we were in the recent past.
We are also more prone to seriously anti-social behaviour – and we are generally much thicker too, thanks to the huge failure in schooling.
But in other ways we have become much warmer human beings.
The old stiff upper lip has gone. We find it easier to show affection for each other than we used to.

Strife on the streets and poetry in Liverpool

November 2, 2006 11:49 AM

IT ISN’T the privacy or the civil liberty issues that worry me most about the hateful spread of CCTV cameras across our country.
What really sickens me is how this reliance on blanket spy cameras tells us everything we need to know about Britain’s steep decline into a nasty and degenerate society.
Cruel times have indeed come to this beautiful country.
The State does not trust its citizens. Citizens don’t trust each other.
So many people live in fear and expectation of the worst, which is no way to live.

This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Steve Regan’s Last Resort in the November 2006. They are listed from oldest to newest.

October 2006 is the previous archive.December 2006 is the next archive.

Many more can be found on the home page or by looking through the archives.