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...

Rehabilitating the ethical life as key to reinhabiting place People with character set the standard for excellence. The fact is, moral...

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...

Modern Liberal Society - Immoral and Lawless These are harsh words on liberalism, so it is worth emphasizing to begin with that...

CELEBRATING THE LUCAS PLAN SOCIALLY USEFUL PRODUCTION The Lucas Plan offers people ideas and direction with respect to the future of work...

Interesting opinion pieces from Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph. It’s not my usual newspaper, going by the name of the Torygraph. But if an...

‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality.’ T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (1935) from The Four Quartets 'Poetry comes from a place that no one...

Joel Kovel vs. the New York Times by QUINCY SAUL ‘I like to imagine Joel’s spirit, in triumphant benevolence on the arc of history,...

Social Restitution and Metabolic Restoration in the Thought of Karl Marx the link on Academia to the same work Ethics, Essence and...

Looks like I'm gone again. It's time to change, new forms and new directions. Like the revolution, I move elsewhere and yet carry on. The...

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. Job 5:7 I title volume three as a home and a resting place, and Lord alone...

Joel Kovel tribute It was so sad to read of the passing of Joel Kovel (30 April 2018). I’ve been trying to find the right words to convey...

New album from Françoise Hardy, Personne d’Autre. A few decades ago now, I remember Alan Price (of The Animals and House of the Rising...

Tatty Bye dear old Doddy 'In life, we all try to do the right things. Sometimes, we get it right and sometimes we don't get it quite...

REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT: THE SOUND OF LIVERPOOL, 1976 – 1988, VARIOUS ARTISTS, 5CD DELUXE BOXSET Extensive 5CD/book set exploring the...

Patrick Geddes, who coined the phrase "Think global. Act Local." in his book Cities in Evolution in 1915, is an important but neglected...

You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice. Individual freedom expressed in terms of subjective...

The Enlightenment of Steven Pinker “Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make...

Valuing What we Make Why We Value What We Make As I’ve mentioned a few times over the years, this is my favourite text from the Bible:...

Enthusing the masses A long read (as usual). The bottom line concerns the need to enthuse and inspire the people, not stupefy them - 'all...