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...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 18, 202213 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...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 12, 202214 min read
Dante: He Hath Seen Well
Dante: He Hath Seen Well The painting is “Dante (He Hath Seen Well)” by Jean-Leon Gerome I've seen some get this title wrong as "He Hath...
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Peter Critchley
May 23, 202268 min read
The Coming Lockdown Reckoning
The Coming Lockdown Reckoning Introduction This essay articulates the growing scepticism which has come to define my position with...
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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
Sep 12, 202110 min read
Imagine Religion - and Politics
This is a post for those who think that religion lies behind the geopolitical conflicts of the world. I write in response to those...
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Peter Critchley
May 21, 20214 min read
Politics is much more difficult than Physics
Physicist Albert Einstein was asked: "why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 12, 202113 min read
Beyond Symptoms
It looks like the US finally found a US-backed coup that it didn't like. At least, I hope that enough Americans didn’t like it to finally...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 20212 min read
Biblical truth?
I was once involved in a debate between atheists and theists. Unfortunately, it was that kind of debate in which the people with the...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 202117 min read
Make Orwell Fiction Again
The horn-wearing Q-shaman carrying a six-foot spear with an American stars and stripes flag tied just below the blade has been arrested....
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Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202025 min read
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful I shall begin by commenting on the recent article How...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 9, 202014 min read
Exposing the 'non-political' politics of the 'classless' class
In a tweet of 30th September, Greta Thunberg wrote this: “Ending fossil capitalism doesn't mean we have to implement socialism. We're...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 21, 202050 min read
Against Environmentalist Non-Politics
Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 30, 202016 min read
Materialist Dialectics
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...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 9, 202091 min read
A Positive and Lasting Peace in the Presence of Justice
A Positive and Lasting Peace in the Presence of Justice This extended essay was written in response to the recent words and deeds of the...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202019 min read
The Political Attempts to Depoliticize Crises and Delegitimize Critical Voices
Having witnessed the remarkable response on the part of large sections of the general public to government mishandling (and worse) of the...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 7, 202022 min read
Reclaiming Politics from Game Playing
When is it time for politics? Living in the greatest (immediate) global crisis in our lifetime is a bit overwhelming, an American friend...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 5, 201911 min read
Re-politicizing the Environment
Re-politicising the Environment Environmentalism in its mainstream form demonstrates a strong scientistic and technocratic bent, with...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 28, 201917 min read
Restoring the Moral Compass
Restoring the Moral Compass Social and Moral Restoration and The Need for an Authoritative Moral Framework “The test of the morality of a...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 26, 201947 min read
Extinction Pacification
Pacification : Putting Politics on Ice as the Earth Heats Up This was an argument put forward by a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion:...
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