Over the past forty years or so, neoliberalism has contributed to the impoverishment of our language by the misuse of certain words. The aim of a Neoliberalspeak dictionary is to give some…

Welcome to Issue 8 of Critical Mass. When we began one of our stated aims was to change the conversation around socialism. Today, for the first time we publish a…

Short Conversations:  During the Storm, is Luke Andreski’s new book, which discusses, among other things, the Climate Crisis, and follows on from Short Conversations: During the Plague, published last year…

Are we already living in a dystopia? A widening gap between rich and poor. Rising costs of living. Technology invading and permeating every facet of our lives. Climate change threatening…

“All deserve to explore What might give them purpose”

Links to Previous chapters – Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 “…and that is how I turned the Macarena into a game of Simon Says!” Molly belted out, loud enough that…

The conversation below is reproduced, with the permission of the participants, from a Twitter discussion group. It was prompted by the news piece in Critical Mass entitled ‘Jabs for jobs…

IT reflects the times we live in that disabled people are stigmatised and dehumanised in society. Ableist language is used in everyday life, and even I’ve been guilty of failing…

WE BRITS like to see ourselves as a nation of animal lovers and we loudly and heartily condemn what we see as  – and what undoubtedly is – the barbarism…

As my regular followers know, I’m a supporter of independent lifeboats rather than RNLI – for reasons I explain in a blog that I post most days at noon –…