Thomas Wright
tomgatto.bsky.social
Thomas Wright
@tomgatto.bsky.social
Writer; English-Language/Literature-in-English teacher; Irish ancestry, English upbringing, Anglo-Italian family abiding in Europe; Tom Waits for President; Arsenal Women fan whatever the weather.
Excited ‘The Rumen’ has published my story ‘Baby Boom & Bust’, which dramatises the exploitation of young tenants by baby-boomer landlords in England. A ‘mockney’ thug landlord goads, patronizes & threatens his hard-up millennial tenant. How will the latter respond?

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Baby Boom and Bust
Literary Journal
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January 11, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Here we are: the woking class - LGBTQ+ gooners; fans priced & worn out by the turbo-capitalist men's game; folks of all ages, passports, ancestries; feminists to a woman - watching Arsenal Women in Louvain Wednesday night, putting on a show with their strength, skill, speed & intelligence...
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Thrilled @trashlightpress.bsky.social published my story, 'Anarchy in 80s England', which explores the varieties of anarchy alive & kicking back there & then, when Thatcher vandalised the social/economic fabric, & draws on my work experience on a building site.

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Anarchy in 80s England - TrashLight Press
‘Without accepted standards… you haven’t got a society; you have purposeless anarchy.’ Margaret Thatcher (1980) ‘There is no such thing as society; there are individual[s].’ Thatcher (1987) Shaven-hea...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM