The climate crisis is a reason to be scared. Water rises but there are water shortages. Land becomes scarce. It is an extinction event.

Not long ago I shared someone’s post on Twitter about the untold suffering in Yemen showing a picture of a starving child. I asked why we seem to turn our…

To some, socialism is a dirty word. Margaret Thatcher saw to that. I was born in Thatcher’s Britain. Everything was about the suits in the city and people were buying…

Which Side Are You On? is a great song about class struggle. It came out of a miners’ strike in Kentucky during the Depression. It’s an easy question. On one…

HALLOWEEN is upon us and I cannot imagine much more frightening than to see creepy little Lisa Nandy and the Prince of Darkness himself, Peter Mandelson, on my doorstep. Even…

For anyone unable to actualise the conflicting mythological differences (either due to community cohesion or existential answers), it will be impossible to partition them from their relative truth.  Radical Civility:…

When we find ourselves in the role of “leader”, how do we justify our control over others?

GROWING CONCRETE Now is the time to be preparing the garden for next spring’s crop of concrete. You have to treat this natural resource very carefully and dig down to…

When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own she was speaking of women’s emancipation from men, and she was speaking of a physical room, but nowadays it is both…

WHILE it is reported that the US are actively whipping up support for protests against the Cuban government, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, has stated the protests are illegal and will…