Pushing water uphill
It’s a myth that the ‘left behind’ were ignored writes Clare Foges She continues: 'The mantra that Brexit is the fault of an...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 20197 min read
Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophist politics
"For years the white working-class have had their lives lampooned and been smeared with a multitude of ‘isms’ and ‘phobias’ by...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 13, 20194 min read
Living in the Sociopathological World
A New Years' Message from Roger Waters: "My brothers and sisters all over the world are being slaughtered and sacrificed on the altar of...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 8, 201918 min read
Elvis as a Musical Education
Elvis as a Musical Education My mother was an Elvis fan. So we all were. Of course, I had to take it all a lot further and become a...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 30, 20186 min read
The End
It looks to be pretty much all over, bar an awful lot of shouting from those who, refusing to be bound by any common standards or...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 21, 20182 min read
In the image of, but not identical
Interesting article from Jeremy Leggett God, Man, Tech and Climate: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber paints a picture for the Club of Rome Human...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 20, 201830 min read
Who would Jesus vote for?
Which side is Jesus on? In being on the side of each and all, Jesus takes no side at all. Instead of reducing Jesus' message to a...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 19, 20184 min read
Hell is a Human Invention, and a Humanist Reality
This is from someone who won the 2018 Harvard and MIT Humanist of the Year. "To me, the great attraction of humanism is not that it holds...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 17, 201811 min read
Liberal Impotence, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal Violence
Macron. So this is liberalism’s great hope? Macron, and hopes for a return of Tony Blair to lead a centre party of moderates against the...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 15, 201818 min read
The Sweet, the Sad, and the Sentimental
The Sweet, the Sad, and the Sentimental It was National Album Day on 13th October, and it had that part of the nation with too much time...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 9, 20186 min read
System Change or Climate Change - which is the easiest to envisage?
System Change or Climate Change - which of the two alternatives is the easiest to envisage? Which is the most likely? I take system...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 9, 201819 min read
Adieu l'artiste - Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour, 1924-2018 I have to say a few words of tribute to Charles Aznavour, a singer, songwriter, performer, entertainer, actor...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 20, 201855 min read
The Death of God and the Abolition of Religion
Religion should be extirpated. That's not my view, I hasten to add, but a view that has been expressed to me (many times, in fact, in...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 6, 20189 min read
The Sick Society
I've just relocated a comment I made on an article written by Domyo Burk, Not Just Guns and Madmen: Our Whole Society Is Insane "A...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 28, 201810 min read
Viktor Frankl and the Reasons to Choose Life
Those who have a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how.' - Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl: How Love Got Him Through On the verge of...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 22, 201814 min read
Virtuous Communities fostering Habits of the Heart
"I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 21, 20182 min read
Support and Stability
I agree very much with the words of Chief Constable Andy Rhodes here and have written to him to offer complete support. Modern society is...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 20, 20188 min read
All the Wishes in the World
Photograph, near the wood, over the blue bridge, over the field of dreams in my home town of St Helens Seeking echoes from the time when...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 16, 201815 min read
Rehabilitating the Ethical Life
Rehabilitating the ethical life as key to reinhabiting place People with character set the standard for excellence. The fact is, moral...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 11, 20184 min read
The Unveiling of a Gravestone to William Blake
APOCALYPSE The Unveiling of a Gravestone to William Blake Sunday 12 August 2018 at 3 pm Bunhill Fields, 38 City Road London EC1Y 1AU (Old...
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