Love and Light, Healing and Hope - Andrea Bocelli's 'Music for Hope.' Andrea Bocelli’s live performance in Milan was a wonderful...

Liars, bullies and trolls Andrea Bocelli’s live performance in Milan was a wonderful experience and has gone down a storm across the...

I posted The Guardian review of Massimo Faggioli’s The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis on social media, The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis...

There may well still be some people around who don't appreciate the gravity of this crisis. I am beyond pussy-footing around with such...

Having witnessed the remarkable response on the part of large sections of the general public to government mishandling (and worse) of the...

Simple, straightforward words from Emily Maitlis exposing language that is trite and misleading, and myths that need debunking. Maitlis...

Talk of social transformation is in the air. People are becoming aware of the extent to which there can be no going back to normality,...

CORONA V _ R _ S Remove the I and U and take them elsewhere into the building of a new public community based on the unity of each and...

Socialism and class Are we are all socialists now? I think not. 'Big' government as such is not socialism. We are being asked to...

I am doing my level best these days to stay clear of engaging in ‘debates’ on social media. There is wisdom in knowing which fights to...

If I may talk about myself (as usual), this interview with Jurgen Habermas caught my eye for personal reasons. I organized my work around...

When is it time for politics? Living in the greatest (immediate) global crisis in our lifetime is a bit overwhelming, an American friend...

Liberty, they say, when they mean licence. A microcosm of the libertarianism of recent decades. The anarchy of the rich and powerful...

I could become very annoying on social media, checking right wing mendacity and stupidity whenever I come across it. It isn’t hard to...

I was moved to write this blog post after having read Stephen Pollard’s article ‘I’m frightened I’ll die of Covid-19.’ Here, Pollard...

“Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of...

LOOKING AFTER THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT I probably spend far too much on social media, but it keeps me connected and there are a lot of sane...

I am all in favour of socialism. I should be, having been a socialist all my life and having written several books advocating socialism....

Cae Mabon - the Welsh Shangri-la. Here are a few notes I made from the time I visited Cae Mabon in December 2016. I took lots of...

Zorba the Greek (Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It...