Peter Cook was one of the great comedians. He had something of a problem with alcohol. Unlike many, he wasn’t a violent or aggressive or...

Leadership I saw this meme on the Greenpeace FB site. I let them know what I thought of it in no uncertain terms and unliked and...

The Best of People Yesterday I exchanged unpleasantries with someone who holds that “the best people can do in a crisis is panic buy...

Don’t Wake Up I’ve been hearing people say “wake up” for too many years now. If that kind of ‘appeal’ didn’t work way back when, then the...

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...

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...

Scientist and climate campaigner Michael Mann called upon YouTube to remove what he calls ‘climate denial videos’ from its forum. “Hey...

And then there are the days when you stun the ever-active and loudly vocal eco-warriors into silence. The innocent lambs are suddenly...

Autocrats and Democrats I recently watched “The Internecine Project,” a movie I remember enjoying from the seventies and which I hadn’t...

We’ll Gather Lilacs I fear that I’ve worn out miscellaneous family members and friends raving about how good Katherine Jenkins was in...

Katherine the Great (Photos by Matthew Thorpe) Katherine Jenkins at the Venue Cymru, Llandudno, 17th November 2021 I attended Katherine...

The Motivational Economy [Written October 2020] This post has been incited by comments made by a number of people involved in bridging...

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...

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...

The Blight of Permanent Activism Supplanting Politics Over a year ago I wrote a series a writings that involved a thorough take-down of...

Government, Politics, and Ethics This analysis of Yanis Varoufakis, explaining that we have already left not just neoliberalism but...

A little more conversation, a little less action, please; All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning anyone. I am reading people trying...

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...

Freddie Mercury and The St Helens Connection I discuss here the St Helens (and Liverpool) connection with Queen, investigating the role...

Insult Britain Irritate Britain Insulting Britons Alienating Britons Whichever way you want to put it, I’m impressed at the incredible,...