Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...

The Need for Reformation Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c1466-1536) is one of my most favourite figures in the history of ideas, a man...

The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest I am reading theorists working in the field of the commons advancing 'enlightened...

"The Left must advance an alternative modernity." And an alternative morality, I would insist. I wish to write a few words on Erik...

The End of Civilisation or the End of the Capital System Affirming a Democratic Ecology against the Ecology of Fear The overwhelming...

My review of John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is generating some interest. With a substantial second part on Engels, this book...

This post is written in response to an article which compares and contrasts left- and right-wing political perspectives. From a...

Seeing the Light “I wish, that I could really tell you, All the things that happened to me And all that I have seen, A world full of...

"Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car" by William Blake I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started life as an...

DANTE’S JOURNEY THE SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE “Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody...

This post has been incited by comments offered today by a number of people involved in environmental campaigning and eco-design. Their...

It is exactly twenty five years ago since I was accepted as a doctoral student at Manchester, so I’ve been looking back, with a mixture...

Redeeming Empty Promises I have been reading Jeffrey Hart, Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher...

A Civic Environmentalism and Moral Ecology: linking ethical, social, and ecological approaches in evolution and extension It’s always...

The Slenderest Knowledge of the Highest Things 'Those who seek the direct road to truth', Descartes argued, 'should not bother with any...

"To get through this pandemic we have to bridge the empathy gap. We know the coming months will be deeply trying, but they could be...

For the Healing In a post, a FB friend recently asked ‘where are the healers?’ I shall quote him in full, because his words here express...

Farewell to Il Maestro It was so sad to hear of the death of Ennio Morricone the morning of July 6, 2020. Ennio Morricone was well liked...

They hold hands And walk in silence In those faded towns which are rocked by drizzle Making no sound but their footsteps Step by muted...

I’m reading on Jack Charlton, the tall, gangly centre-half for Leeds United and England in the sixties up to his retirement in 1972 when...