Painting by Christian Verpoorten “This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a...

Laudato Si' anniversary: For what do we cherish enough to act? “Whether believers or not, we are agreed today that the earth is...

The Whole World Order … and the delusions of separation. Is politics a matter of Truth, as with Plato? Or is its temper judicious, as...

Muhammad Ali – Champion of Peace, Freedom, Racial Equality, and Social Justice “I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the...

Between you and reality is a Pile of Books The Real World and the Written Word I’ve never been happy with the written word. That's a...

Politics, Psychology and Physics Or what it means to be living in the real world. The politics and psychology of climate response In...

The Louvre's closure proves art cannot survive climate change The article has this passage: "The flooding in Paris is a stark warning of...

“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”...

With the Liverpool scarf I wore on the terraces of Leppings Lane, Hillsborough, Sheffield, April 15 1989. Images from the Hillsborough...

Thanks to Pastor Ron Thomas and Gaynor Thomas for a most enjoyable evening last night, as I prepare to say a long and sad goodbye to...

I visited St Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, yesterday. Billed as one of the US' best Liberal Arts schools, it was quite...

Fantasy Football; or, so long Barry Hines and Johan Cruyff Barry Hines, author of book behind Kes, dies Writer of A Kestrel for a Knave,...

THE NEW ECONOMICS OF PROSPERITY Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity by Andrew Simms Books predicting the apocalypse are...

Colin Vearncombe – A Wonderful Life Tonight I bade a sad farewell to singer-songwriter Colin Vearncombe and gave thanks for his wonderful...

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame This is a talk I gave in the libraries of Merseyside, UK, 2007. My brief was to bring the world...

There is a growing interest in “degrowth” and no growth, stemming from an awareness of the natural and social limits to growth. But,...

HERE COMES THE FLOOD There is a Persian proverb that says that when we get to the Gates of Heaven, God will ask the one question: ‘What...

I'll start by quoting from this article: "Markets in the next system" by Jesse A. Myerson | January 21, 2016 "Roughly 4,000 years before...

Over in the US – I kid you not! – I came down a mountain with students from a local college. They moved a heck of a lot quicker than I...

We see the problems besetting the planet, we hear the television and radio news, we read the reports, and demand that something should be...