I pursue the work of restitution, restoration, and reconstruction in face of the tyranny and violence of abstraction, an extraneous force...

Written 17 January 2026 A new paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research advocates for ‘Queering Children's Rights.’ The author of the paper asserts that children have a right to ‘gender and sexuality’ and criticises the view presented in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child's that children should be ‘desexualized’ and deemed ‘innocent.’ This innocence is to be stripped away, condemned as a ‘protectionist approach to children’ that seeks to ‘

The U.K. just voted to encourage vulnerable people to kill themselves in the name of some dubious dignity. Coincidentally, the mass...

It is tempting to just give up. I’ve been diagnosing the crisis we face for thirty years now, covering economics, ecology, history,...

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society   The Kinks became something of an anachronism as the sixties progressed, the band’s rock’n’roll ethos playing alongside music hall and memories of an England that was fast fading from view. By 1968, when the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society was released, the band itself was fading, too. The album’s making was fraught with difficulties, with Ray Davies first withdrawing the album from release, then

Last week: The biggest farmland owner in the US, Bill Gates, visits Starmer and Reeves at Downing Street This week: the Labour government...

Governments gaslighting the public as they hide the truth. It seems to be a common problem across the Western world.   I have spent every...

It Hurts to Say Goodbye The following song list is for my You Tube Playlist of the same name: It Hurts to Say Goodbye . I didn't have...

The Kop’s Last Stand 30 years ago today, 30th April 1994, I was among the 16,479 Kopites who sang their happy-sad goodbyes to the Kop on...

The Workers Memorial It is International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) on 28th April every year. And every year, more people are killed at...

Below are links to and brief descriptions of my two volume study of the thought of J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales for Our Times. J.R.R. Tolkien:...

Below are links to and brief descriptions of my published essays on the deficiencies of environmentalism as a philosophy and politics....

Below are links to and brief descriptions of the four volumes of my study of the nature, evolution, and possible future of the city,...

Below are links to and brief descriptions of the books in which I define and develop the idea of a rational moral freedom. In this...

Below are links to and brief descriptions of two books I have published in what can be described as the field of literary ecology. In the...

Below are links to and brief descriptions of three books which, in different ways, explore the importance of roots, creativity, and...

Aquinas, Morality, and Modernity: The Promise of the Natural Moral Law. 2013 175,878 words Aquinas, Morality, and Modernity traces the...

Below are links to and brief descriptions of my four-volume doctoral studies of the thought, politics, and contemporary relevance of Karl...

Below are links to and brief descriptions of my 2018 publications on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx....

Below are links to and brief descriptions of my doctoral studies on the thought of Karl Marx. At a time when the political and...