To Live Fearlessly in Hope
I remember the footballer Matthew Le Tissier very well. I should do. I was in the Kop the afternoon he lifted the ball over the head of...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 15, 202158 min read
Still Here
To Live Fearlessly in Hope One day you will tell your story about how you overcame what you went through and it’ll be someone else’s...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 10, 202112 min read
Knowing History, Politics, and Human Beings
Scientist and climate campaigner Michael Mann called upon YouTube to remove what he calls ‘climate denial videos’ from its forum. “Hey...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 8, 20215 min read
The Dangers of Environmental Overspill and Appropriation
And then there are the days when you stun the ever-active and loudly vocal eco-warriors into silence. The innocent lambs are suddenly...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 5, 202117 min read
Democrats vs Autocrats
Autocrats and Democrats I recently watched “The Internecine Project,” a movie I remember enjoying from the seventies and which I hadn’t...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 3, 20215 min read
We'll Gather Lilacs
We’ll Gather Lilacs I fear that I’ve worn out miscellaneous family members and friends raving about how good Katherine Jenkins was in...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 202113 min read
Katherine the Great
Katherine the Great (Photos by Matthew Thorpe) Katherine Jenkins at the Venue Cymru, Llandudno, 17th November 2021 I attended Katherine...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 30, 202121 min read
The Motivational Economy
The Motivational Economy [Written October 2020] This post has been incited by comments made by a number of people involved in bridging...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 27, 202115 min read
In Defence of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
In Defence of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West By Jordan B. Cooper This...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 14, 202122 min read
Resisting the Psychocrats
Resisting Psychocrats I’m still on The Green Party’s mailing list, despite letting my membership lapse some time in 2018 or 2019. I left...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 11, 202122 min read
The Blight of Activism
The Blight of Permanent Activism Supplanting Politics Over a year ago I wrote a series a writings that involved a thorough take-down of...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 11, 202124 min read
Environmentalism as Techno-Bureaucratic Managerialism
Government, Politics, and Ethics This analysis of Yanis Varoufakis, explaining that we have already left not just neoliberalism but...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 28, 202127 min read
A little more conversation, a little less action, please
A little more conversation, a little less action, please; All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning anyone. I am reading people trying...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 27, 20218 min read
Dante's Revolution of Love
Dante’s Revolution of Love “Here my exalted vision lost its power. But now my will and my desire, like wheels revolving with an even...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 24, 202113 min read
Freddie Mercury - The St Helens Connection
Freddie Mercury and The St Helens Connection I discuss here the St Helens (and Liverpool) connection with Queen, investigating the role...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 22, 202125 min read
Irritate Britain
Insult Britain Irritate Britain Insulting Britons Alienating Britons Whichever way you want to put it, I’m impressed at the incredible,...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 2, 202112 min read
Alone Again, Naturally
Alone Again, Naturally I’ve taken the title from the great Gilbert O’Sullivan song of the same name. Gilbert was a favourite singer from...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 27, 2021109 min read
Queen - The 50 Greatest Tracks
Queen 50 Greatest Tracks And then the next 50 Greatest It is the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of classic Queen with the addition...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 19, 202110 min read
In Search of Billy Bremner
This is the kind of thing that tends only to happen to me. Or, appraising the situation more honestly, this is the kind of thing that...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 19, 202123 min read
Bibliography and Word Count
Bibliography and Word Count Materials here can be found on my Academia, Humanities Commons, Being and Place, and Entirely Elvis sites. I...
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