Gerrard Winstanley was born in Wigan, the next town to my home town of St Helens. His parents were married in Prescot, St Helens, which...

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it" Tagore I'd qualify on logic. It depends. Be careful of...

Metaphorics - Mythology, Metaphysics, and Metaphor This essay was sparked by a quote on Mythos and mythology as things which give access...

MYTHOS AND LOGOS - THE DELUSIONS OF RATIONALIZING THE NON-RATIONAL. "I've always preferred mythology over history because history is made...

Liverpool Hot 100 Liverpool Hot 100 - 100 songs from Liverpool "Liverpool is more than a place where music happens. Liverpool is a reason...

Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism This piece is in response to Steven Tucker's essay The cult of progress: John Stuart Mill’s prison...

Here and there, the penny is dropping - the world has drifted into unreality, and people are concerned to know what it will take to come...

Human beings are healthier, wealthier, longer-lived and better educated than at any time in history, and in greater numbers. We may...

This is my list of my favourite 100 songs from Liverpool, one artist, one song. "Liverpool is more than a place where music happens....

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...

Create a problem where none exists, slice and dice humanity according to identity, divide society and turn people against one another,...

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...

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...

In case there's ever any doubt where I stand. It's the 34th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster which left ninety seven Liverpool...

“Anger when it lasts a long time engenders hatred.” - St. Thomas Aquinas I want to talk about the so-called culture wars. I hate...

Prospects for a New Politics The Left is based on universality and solidarity. The most stupid and self-defeating thing the Left could...

About four or five years ago Arran Gare wrote to me. "Dear Peter Critchley I have recently realized that we have very similar interests...

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...

“I remember when we had: a working NHS, free university education, public libraries; an integrated railway service; subsidised railway...

Scrolling aimlessly through Twitter (a terrible time and life wasting habit), a question on exercise and fitness caught my eye. How do we...