Escaping the Tragic Dialectics of Progress
Human beings are healthier, wealthier, longer-lived and better educated than at any time in history, and in greater numbers. We may...
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Peter Critchley
May 9, 202315 min read
Liverpool Hot 100 - 100 songs from Liverpool
This is my list of my favourite 100 songs from Liverpool, one artist, one song. "Liverpool is more than a place where music happens....
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Peter Critchley
May 7, 202357 min read
Thoughts on the Coronation
Thoughts on the Coronation Or, It's much easier to criticise the old than to challenge the new. "We do not merely study the past: we...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 29, 202314 min read
Fraudulent Foucaultians
Create a problem where none exists, slice and dice humanity according to identity, divide society and turn people against one another,...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 29, 20233 min read
Men as gods
Watching a man in a dress call a woman a misogynist is just so 2023. I don't waste too much time calling it out. I do question how what's...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 19, 20234 min read
What the Bird Said Early in the Year
Come the hopeful season of Spring, one feels that gates which have been closed may yet be come to open, with what has often seemed to be...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 16, 202317 min read
Reflections on Hillsborough
In case there's ever any doubt where I stand. It's the 34th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster which left ninety seven Liverpool...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 14, 202327 min read
Stand Up, Speak Out, Push Back
“Anger when it lasts a long time engenders hatred.” - St. Thomas Aquinas I want to talk about the so-called culture wars. I hate...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202334 min read
Prospects for a New Politics
Prospects for a New Politics The Left is based on universality and solidarity. The most stupid and self-defeating thing the Left could...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 5, 20236 min read
Posthumanism as a housing for the new serfdom
About four or five years ago Arran Gare wrote to me. "Dear Peter Critchley I have recently realized that we have very similar interests...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 4, 20234 min read
Recovering the Working Class Voice
I was intrigued to learn that Julie Burchill started to follow me on Twitter. It took me by surprise. I don't do much on there except...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 3, 20235 min read
Reclaiming and Re-Grounding Socialism
“I remember when we had: a working NHS, free university education, public libraries; an integrated railway service; subsidised railway...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 31, 20231 min read
A Culture of Discipline
Scrolling aimlessly through Twitter (a terrible time and life wasting habit), a question on exercise and fitness caught my eye. How do we...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 20235 min read
The Need to Resolidify
It is interesting to see a quantitative portrayal of the age we have been living through. People will feel the diremption and the...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 202315 min read
Masculine Feminine
I said goodbye and good riddance to the Left in politics a few years ago. It is patently obvious that Leftists not only have zero...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 23, 20233 min read
A Proximal Politics
“To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 13, 202328 min read
Overcoming Anxiety
Overcoming Anxiety Notes on Mel Robbins – lessons to learn, habits to acquire, things to do (and things not to do). I recently discovered...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 11, 20233 min read
Above and Beyond All Sides Now
Above and Beyond All Sides Now "I don’t know which side anybody is on any more. I don’t really care. There is a moment when we have to...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 11, 20232 min read
Telling People What They Don't Want to Hear
Telling People What They Don't Want to Hear The fact that people of very different political persuasions are currently sharing this photo...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 7, 202316 min read
Design for Health and Wellness
Design for Health and Wellness - Essence and Existence The health programme that I set out in this short article is based on the detailed...
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