Françoise Hardy in Manchester!
Françoise Hardy in Manchester! Photos by Ernest Chapman (Daily Mirror) Heavens! This is Françoise Hardy, my favourite female singer (by a...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 12, 20195 min read
The Quest for Community, Meaning, and Belonging
These are the outlines to a work I have written. It is currently in first draft form and needs to be edited and polished. Morality and...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 6, 201924 min read
Top 0.1%
Top 0.1% Out of a few million academics, I'm in the Top 0.1% That’s not half bad. I suspect that, with the changes that are happening,...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 4, 201912 min read
Glastonbury is Rubbish
Before I go any further, I need to explain why this post is even necessary. I don’t much like Glastonbury, so pass on. There’s a couple...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 3, 201960 min read
Wittgenstein, Bewitchment, and Silence
The struggle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language I've been debating philosophy on social media again,...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 30, 201948 min read
Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives
Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives Whisper it to those who think that truth is factual and logical and no more, but it is entirely possible...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201918 min read
The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth: Resolidifying 2
The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth Resolidifying 2 When I first started to write on socialism and class, I was made...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201911 min read
Rebuilding Labour's Foundations: Resolidifying
Rebuilding Labour's Foundations Resolidifying 1 Labourism is often denigrated or dismissed as a labour metaphysic that privileges working...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201917 min read
Revaluing Labour: Reflections on the St Helens Workers' Memorial
Revaluing Labour: Reflections on the St Helens Workers' Memorial I would like to write in praise of The Workers Memorial here in St...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201935 min read
Changes: Climate Change, Civilization Change, System Change, Self-Change
Changes: Climate Change, Civilisation Change, System Change, Self-Change I shall try to be as brief as I possibly can be. Over the years...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 20196 min read
Name Your Park: Ideas and Plans
NAME YOUR PARK: MY IDEAS AND PLANS In 2015 I was part of the “Your Name Here” citizen project. The good people of St Helens were granted...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 9, 201958 min read
Hearing the Deep Cry of Meaning
Hearing the Deep Cry of Meaning After singing the praises of John the Baptist, Jesus turned to lambast the people for their failure to...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 201925 min read
High Politics and Green Truths
Green Truths and High Politics When they go low, you stay high. It depends on what you mean by ‘high’ and ‘low,’ though. There is a...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 201940 min read
The Politics of Love – Affirming Possibilities for a One Nation Green Conservatism
The Politics of Love – Affirming Possibilities for a One Nation Green Conservatism For a Social and Moral Ecology Just when I think my...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 4, 201910 min read
The Return of Aristotle
Aristotle gets his revenge over ‘science-based’ culture Thank you Edward Feser for the arguments presented in this new book Aristotle’s...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 3, 201947 min read
Memories of Hillsborough, Thirty Years On
Memories of Hillsborough, Thirty Years On Thirty years ago today I was one of the few thousand Liverpool fans who went to a football...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 2, 201923 min read
The Springs of Action - Making Facts Existentially Meaningful
I shall begin with this letter that Dr Amanda Power sent to the Guardian: ‘Matt Waddup states (Report, theguardian.com, 30 May) that a...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 2, 201927 min read
Liverpool - Champions of Europe, Again
Liverpool - Champions of Europe, Again There were some remarkable scenes at the Liverpool Homecoming on Sunday. I would say that this...
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Peter Critchley
May 30, 201916 min read
Pleonexia and Public Life
Pleonexia and Public Life I begin with a couple of articles. First, this one written by Aditya Chakraborty in The Guardian: Amoral and...
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Peter Critchley
May 30, 201941 min read
My Conception of Socialism
My Conception of Socialism I have been a socialist all my life and I openly identify as a socialist. The argument I make in my work is...
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