The Blight of Essentialism Hunting To begin, I quote from this feminist essay on the origins of the wrong turn taken by feminist studies...

Dante’s Sweet Symphony of Paradise I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started as an article on Dante and music as I...

Ecopoetics, disclosing the Hidden God in Nature “Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret,...

"Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car," William Blake Finding Meaning Through Metaphor The Power of Metaphoric Thinking Here is an...

Leap of Faith Nothing worthy proving can be proven The painting is Leap of Faith by Jon Morro. He describes it thus: I took a detail of...

Disclosing Truth The photograph is of the sculpture of Pythagoras in the Incarnation Portal of the west façade of Chartres Cathedral....

Tolkien and the Ethics of Enchantment “The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of...

Françoise Hardy in Manchester! Photos by Ernest Chapman (Daily Mirror) Heavens! This is Françoise Hardy, my favourite female singer (by a...

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...

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,...

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...

The struggle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language I've been debating philosophy on social media again,...

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...

The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth Resolidifying 2 When I first started to write on socialism and class, I was made...

Rebuilding Labour's Foundations Resolidifying 1 Labourism is often denigrated or dismissed as a labour metaphysic that privileges working...

Revaluing Labour: Reflections on the St Helens Workers' Memorial I would like to write in praise of The Workers Memorial here in St...

Changes: Climate Change, Civilisation Change, System Change, Self-Change I shall try to be as brief as I possibly can be. Over the years...

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...

Hearing the Deep Cry of Meaning After singing the praises of John the Baptist, Jesus turned to lambast the people for their failure to...

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...