It is exactly twenty five years ago since I was accepted as a doctoral student at Manchester, so I’ve been looking back, with a mixture...

For the Healing In a post, a FB friend recently asked ‘where are the healers?’ I shall quote him in full, because his words here express...

I’m reading on Jack Charlton, the tall, gangly centre-half for Leeds United and England in the sixties up to his retirement in 1972 when...

It is Father’s Day today. It struck me today that I never once wished my father a Happy Father’s Day. When it was a happy day every day,...

If I may talk about myself (as usual), this interview with Jurgen Habermas caught my eye for personal reasons. I organized my work around...

My work on Marx is described as ‘significant’ and ‘meticulous’ by Barbara Harriss-White in The Socialist Register. It is, actually. And...

There comes a point when the world, its events and its people finally become so overwhelming that you just have to call it a day. I had a...

Emerging from Under Modernity's Shadow Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...

In Praise of My Good Self I have worked alone, outside of Academia and with no financial support, for a quarter of a century now. I don’t...

Socialism and Liberalism Let me start by declaring myself an ‘enemy’ of ‘the Open Society.’ If you are smart enough, you will understand...

Dante’s Sweet Symphony of Paradise I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started as an article on Dante and music as I...

Top 0.1% Out of a few million academics, I'm in the Top 0.1% That’s not half bad. I suspect that, with the changes that are happening,...

The struggle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language I've been debating philosophy on social media again,...

Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives Whisper it to those who think that truth is factual and logical and no more, but it is entirely possible...

The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth Resolidifying 2 When I first started to write on socialism and class, I was made...

Revaluing Labour: Reflections on the St Helens Workers' Memorial I would like to write in praise of The Workers Memorial here in St...

NAME YOUR PARK: MY IDEAS AND PLANS In 2015 I was part of the “Your Name Here” citizen project. The good people of St Helens were granted...

Aristotle gets his revenge over ‘science-based’ culture Thank you Edward Feser for the arguments presented in this new book Aristotle’s...

Memories of Hillsborough, Thirty Years On Thirty years ago today I was one of the few thousand Liverpool fans who went to a football...

I shall begin with this letter that Dr Amanda Power sent to the Guardian: ‘Matt Waddup states (Report, theguardian.com, 30 May) that a...