Muhammad Ali – Champion of Peace, Freedom, Racial Equality and Social Justice
Muhammad Ali – Champion of Peace, Freedom, Racial Equality, and Social Justice “I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 9, 20167 min read
Between you and reality is a pile of books
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...
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Dr Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 201620 min read
Politics, Psychology, and Physics
Politics, Psychology and Physics Or what it means to be living in the real world. The politics and psychology of climate response In...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 7, 20163 min read
Sic Transit Gloria Civilisation
The Louvre's closure proves art cannot survive climate change The article has this passage: "The flooding in Paris is a stark warning of...
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Peter Critchley
May 22, 20167 min read
Plato and Democracy
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 29, 20163 min read
Truth, Justice and Love
With the Liverpool scarf I wore on the terraces of Leppings Lane, Hillsborough, Sheffield, April 15 1989. Images from the Hillsborough...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 19, 20166 min read
The Little Village Church with the Big Heart
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...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 15, 20166 min read
Truth Matters, and is a Work of Reason
I visited St Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, yesterday. Billed as one of the US' best Liberal Arts schools, it was quite...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 1, 20166 min read
Fantasy Football
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,...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 1, 201616 min read
The New Economics of Prosperity
THE NEW ECONOMICS OF PROSPERITY Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity by Andrew Simms Books predicting the apocalypse are...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 19, 201610 min read
Colin Vearncombe - A Wonderful Life
Colin Vearncombe – A Wonderful Life Tonight I bade a sad farewell to singer-songwriter Colin Vearncombe and gave thanks for his wonderful...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 15, 201614 min read
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
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...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 10, 20166 min read
Real Growth and Qualitative Development
There is a growing interest in “degrowth” and no growth, stemming from an awareness of the natural and social limits to growth. But,...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 9, 201617 min read
Here Comes the Flood
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...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 9, 201611 min read
Markets and Morality: Where do public virtues come from?
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...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 9, 20164 min read
Heart, Hand and Head
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...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 4, 20166 min read
Responsibility
We see the problems besetting the planet, we hear the television and radio news, we read the reports, and demand that something should be...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 3, 20162 min read
Nature via Nurture
Nature via nurture Beyond nature vs nurture, innatism vs culturalism. Predisposition is not predetermination. Social epigenetics =...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 2, 20165 min read
Why we are born, Whence we come, Wither we go.
Why, Whence and Wither - the "Big Questions" of Life Ernst Bloch wrote about 'the principle of hope' as central to a living philosophy....
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Peter Critchley
Jan 2, 20169 min read
Love and Knowledge
Love and Knowledge: Innate Moral Grammar I’m half-remembering (and probably mixing up) a quote here, “there’s nothing new, just a lot of...
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