“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...

Overcoming Anxiety Notes on Mel Robbins – lessons to learn, habits to acquire, things to do (and things not to do). I recently discovered...

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...

Telling People What They Don't Want to Hear The fact that people of very different political persuasions are currently sharing this photo...

Design for Health and Wellness - Essence and Existence The health programme that I set out in this short article is based on the detailed...

My first degree is in History. I'm very proud to say that I am a historian by exceedingly good training as well as by inclination. Even...

The Loss of Deep Problems The Certain and the Measurable as the End of Metaphysics and Spirituality “Some philosophers (or whatever you...

The Emptiness and Transience of Life In despair, seeing all his plots unravelling, his machinations brought to nothing, Shakespeare's...

Habituation vs Homelessness This essay was provoked by contemplating Martin Buber’s analysis of the way that 'epochs of habitation'...

Thunberg as an “Autistic Climate Justice Activist.” I take an interest in the public perceptions of autism following in the trail of the...

The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all “The entire historical and political basis of the Left is solidarity,...

Gilbert O Sullivan Discography I can't actually remember ever consciously becoming a Gilbert O'Sullivan. I can't quite remember a time...

The Scientists’ Lament This scientists' lament is being shared widely over social media and concerns an issue I have been addressing for...

Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...

Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who...

Observations on Charles Fourier Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable series of utopias envisaging the radical...

The Way of Love I recently re-read Carl Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections. After ploughing through the complexities of...

The Abolition of the Public Good "In 1965, the people of Britain may have been poorer, shabbier, dirtier, colder, narrower, more set in...

Extending and Entrenching the Corporate Form In 1995 I was on the accredited Masters European Industrial Relations and Human Resources...

Locating the Origins of the Modern Malaise The fate of our times is characterised by rationalisation and intellectualisation and, above...