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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...
Peter Critchley
Mar 11, 20233 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...
Peter Critchley
Mar 11, 20232 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...
Peter Critchley
Mar 7, 202317 min read


Studying History
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...
Peter Critchley
Mar 6, 202314 min read


The Loss of Deep Problems
The Loss of Deep Problems The Certain and the Measurable as the End of Metaphysics and Spirituality “Some philosophers (or whatever you...
Peter Critchley
Feb 28, 20236 min read


The Emptiness and Transience of Life
The Emptiness and Transience of Life In despair, seeing all his plots unravelling, his machinations brought to nothing, Shakespeare's...
Peter Critchley
Jan 31, 202317 min read


Habituation vs Homelessness
Habituation vs Homelessness This essay was provoked by contemplating Martin Buber’s analysis of the way that 'epochs of habitation'...
Peter Critchley
Jan 29, 202359 min read


Greta Thunberg as “Autistic Climate Justice Activist.”
Thunberg as an “Autistic Climate Justice Activist.” I take an interest in the public perceptions of autism following in the trail of the...
Peter Critchley
Jan 21, 202346 min read


The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all
The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all “The entire historical and political basis of the Left is solidarity,...
Peter Critchley
Jan 15, 202319 min read


Gilbert O'Sullivan Discography
Gilbert O Sullivan Discography I can't actually remember ever consciously becoming a Gilbert O'Sullivan. I can't quite remember a time...
Peter Critchley
Jan 1, 202310 min read


The Scientists' Lament
The Scientists’ Lament This scientists' lament is being shared widely over social media and concerns an issue I have been addressing for...
Peter Critchley
Dec 27, 202225 min read


Reason, Freedom, and God
Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...
Peter Critchley
Dec 16, 202228 min read


Fire and Ice
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...
Peter Critchley
Dec 12, 202225 min read


Observations on Charles Fourier
Observations on Charles Fourier Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable series of utopias envisaging the radical...
Peter Critchley
Nov 26, 202217 min read


The Way of Love
The Way of Love I recently re-read Carl Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections. After ploughing through the complexities of...
Peter Critchley
Nov 20, 20226 min read


The Abolition of the Public Good
The Abolition of the Public Good "In 1965, the people of Britain may have been poorer, shabbier, dirtier, colder, narrower, more set in...
Peter Critchley
Nov 19, 20228 min read


Extending and Entrenching the Corporate Form
Extending and Entrenching the Corporate Form In 1995 I was on the accredited Masters European Industrial Relations and Human Resources...
Peter Critchley
Nov 18, 202213 min read


Locating the Origins of the Modern Malaise
Locating the Origins of the Modern Malaise The fate of our times is characterised by rationalisation and intellectualisation and, above...
Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 202237 min read


Passing on the Virtues
The Triumph of the Virtues (also known as Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue) by Andrea Mantegna, 1502. Passing on the...
Peter Critchley
Nov 16, 202217 min read


Jerry Lee Lewis – Killer Tracks
Jerry Lee Lewis – An Appreciation I was sad to hear of the death of Jerry Lee Lewis. He was by far and away the most electrifying...
Peter Critchley
Nov 2, 202230 min read
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