Welcome to Issue 8 of Critical Mass. When we began one of our stated aims was to change the conversation…

Are we already living in a dystopia? A widening gap between rich and poor. Rising costs of living. Technology invading…

“All deserve to explore What might give them purpose”

As my regular followers know, I’m a supporter of independent lifeboats rather than RNLI – for reasons I explain in…

Yes – I’m aware that its still November, but whether we want to admit it or not the countdown to…

Links to Previous chapters – Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 “…and that is how I turned the Macarena into a…

The conversation below is reproduced, with the permission of the participants, from a Twitter discussion group. It was prompted by…

IT reflects the times we live in that disabled people are stigmatised and dehumanised in society. Ableist language is used…

WE BRITS like to see ourselves as a nation of animal lovers and we loudly and heartily condemn what we…

Nostalgia First some personal nostalgia: In 1960 my parents moved into a new house, it had a larder in the…