I wrote this back in 2020 but filed it away for another day and promptly forgot it. I intended to expand the ideas here in light of the...

A conservatism which tells government – or any other collective entity - to stay out of the lives of individuals isn't conservatism at...

Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism This piece is in response to Steven Tucker's essay The cult of progress: John Stuart Mill’s prison...

Prospects for a New Politics The Left is based on universality and solidarity. The most stupid and self-defeating thing the Left could...

I was intrigued to learn that Julie Burchill started to follow me on Twitter. It took me by surprise. I don't do much on there except...

“I remember when we had: a working NHS, free university education, public libraries; an integrated railway service; subsidised railway...

The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all “The entire historical and political basis of the Left is solidarity,...

Marx and Rational Freedom I read Marx critically and not theologically, which is how Marx intended he be read. I appreciate the fact that...

Technocracy is not Socialism It’s soul-destroying for me to record that this meme has received 15 thousand likes on FB. I have explained...

How the Left betrayed the truckers In response to this article in Unheard, I read this comment: The social milieu susceptible to wokeness...

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....

How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful I shall begin by commenting on the recent article How...

In a tweet of 30th September, Greta Thunberg wrote this: “Ending fossil capitalism doesn't mean we have to implement socialism. We're...

Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...

The Need for Reformation Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c1466-1536) is one of my most favourite figures in the history of ideas, a man...

The End of Civilisation or the End of the Capital System Affirming a Democratic Ecology against the Ecology of Fear The overwhelming...

My review of John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is generating some interest. With a substantial second part on Engels, this book...

This post is written in response to an article which compares and contrasts left- and right-wing political perspectives. From a...

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...

Pope Francis’ Homily on 20th Anniversary of Divine Mercy Sunday (Full Text) Pope Francis has frequently stated that ‘this economy kills.’...