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Peter Critchley
Mar 24, 20196 min read
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Being and Place Posts Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophism in politics Living in the Sociopathological World Elvis as a Musical...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 10, 20194 min read
To be given yet another life
"Time is short, and suddenly you are not there any more." RIP Albert Finney. Albert Finney obituary Actor hailed as the new Olivier but...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 17, 201936 min read
Barriers to Actively Seeking Work
In the process of taking stock after years and years of fruitless search, I came across a box of papers from the time I was seeking to...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 17, 201911 min read
Aristo-Populism
I have just received this invitation to a lecture delivered by a political philosopher that I count as a friend on Facebook. I think he...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 17, 201926 min read
Old Friends and New - "Stan and Ollie"
Film Review: “Stan & Ollie” Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes 97 MIN. CREW: Director: Jon S. Baird. Screenplay: Jeff Pope. Camera (color):...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 15, 201918 min read
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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