Science is Never Settled My response to an article like this is to resist the temptation to restate the latest climate science, what the...

WORKS IN PREPARATION Below is a list of the works I am preparing for publication. I have been researching questions of ‘Being and Place’...

Being and Place Posts Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophism in politics Living in the Sociopathological World Elvis as a Musical...

"Time is short, and suddenly you are not there any more." RIP Albert Finney. Albert Finney obituary Actor hailed as the new Olivier but...

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...

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...

Film Review: “Stan & Ollie” Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes 97 MIN. CREW: Director: Jon S. Baird. Screenplay: Jeff Pope. Camera (color):...

It’s a myth that the ‘left behind’ were ignored writes Clare Foges She continues: 'The mantra that Brexit is the fault of an...

"For years the white working-class have had their lives lampooned and been smeared with a multitude of ‘isms’ and ‘phobias’ by...

A New Years' Message from Roger Waters: "My brothers and sisters all over the world are being slaughtered and sacrificed on the altar of...

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...

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...

Interesting article from Jeremy Leggett God, Man, Tech and Climate: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber paints a picture for the Club of Rome Human...

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...

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...

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...

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...

System Change or Climate Change - which of the two alternatives is the easiest to envisage? Which is the most likely? I take system...

Charles Aznavour, 1924-2018 I have to say a few words of tribute to Charles Aznavour, a singer, songwriter, performer, entertainer, actor...

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...