Peter Jukes

London

Founder and Executive Editor at Byline Times

Dramatist wrenched out of fiction 12 years ago by the fierce urgency of fact (& Murdoch crimes). Co founder @Byline_Media @BylineFest @BylineTimes - myself here

Articles

Trojan Horse: Trump, Russia, Brexit - Democracy Under Siege

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Peter Jukes

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The Trojan Horse: Book One - The Fifth Battlespace

2 weeks ago | pdjukes.substack.com | Peter Jukes

So everything changes, and what I had initially called Book/Chapter One - the meeting of Dugin, Surkov and Rykov - is now Book/Chapter Two. That scene at the Olgino Troll factory may yet shift again - but at least I’ve now made a proper beginning. Please note these illustrations are just experimental placeholders I’ve designed with Photoshop and Generative AI to break up the reading for now. Any final version of this poem would commission a proper illustrator.
The Trojan Horse: Trump, Russia, Brexit

3 weeks ago | pdjukes.substack.com | Peter Jukes

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The Trojan Horse: Chapter One

4 weeks ago | pdjukes.substack.com | Peter Jukes

Konstantin Rykov, Alexander Dugin and Vladislav Surkov outside the Internet Research Agency in St PetersburgText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThey had passed like ghosts through the new offices,Four stories high, clad in steel and dark blue glass,In the Olgino suburb of St Petersburg.
The Trojan Horse: Chapter One

4 weeks ago | pdjukes.substack.com | Peter Jukes

Konstantin Rykov, Alexander Dugin and Vladislav Surkov outside the Internet Research Agency in St PetersburgText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThey had passed like ghosts through the new offices,Four stories high, clad in steel and dark blue glass,In the Olgino suburb of St Petersburg.
The Trojan Horse: Trump, Russia, Brexit

1 month ago | pdjukes.substack.com | Peter Jukes

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Dugin, Surkov, Rykov - Part II of the Plot Against the West

1 month ago | pdjukes.substack.com | Peter Jukes

For more on the background to this scene, and the key ideological roles of the three protagonists - Konstantin Rykov, Vladislav Surkov and Alexander Dugin - please check out my previous post. This is all very much a first draft and I’m very happy to clear up any confusions or amend any infelicities in the verse as the story develops. And that’s what people forget about epic verse - it needs to be a great story.
This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness

1 month ago | bylinesupplement.com | Peter Jukes

This is my England. The photo below was taken soon after the last war in the Suffolk garden of my adopted grandfather, Sidney Cox, a retired solicitor. Next to him is a Jewish refugee from Germany he housed for the duration of the war (I wish I could find her name). Next to her is my mother, Jean Cox, born of an Armenian asylum seeker and a Welsh mother, who Sidney had adopted when she was six weeks old in 1926. Next to my mother is my dad, John Jukes, who had just joined the Royal Artillery.
The Trojan Horse: Trump, Russia, Brexit

1 month ago | pdjukes.substack.com | Peter Jukes

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'Total Information Collapse' and the Tribunal of Truth

2 months ago | bylinetimes.com | Peter Jukes

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