Lambast by Michael Gurner, aka The Sixty Second Scribe, is poetry for our time. Michael is best known to readers of Critical Mass for the short videos we publish of…

The government has already shown how it is willing to outsource public sector responsibilities to private companies, at astronomical costs, despite the fact that the service they provide is insufficient…

THIS is the first of a series of articles on people, individuals or groups, who have inspired us.  I was greatly influenced by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. His speeches, publications,…

Based on a folktale from Japan. ‘Mukashi mukashi’ as they say in Japan or as we say, ‘once upon a time’, there was a young and handsome fisherman named Urashima…

Author Robert Greene is a phenomenon. More than twenty years ago Robert Greene was a failed writer whose curriculum vitae and list of jobs read like Jack London’s. He bounced…

The circumstances which would make a socialist election victory possible would be such that winning a parliamentary election in order to maintain capitalism with a human face might be the…

What is work, what is it for, and what is it going to look like in the future? Do we need to work and how much work should we do?…

Bold, breathtaking, and full of fresh life – Halo’s latest game truly does set the bar for the future of the series.

WITH a further six million people facing fuel poverty in 2022, according to widespread media reports, the government is under huge pressure to remove the 5% VAT on domestic energy…

This article first appeared on Media Lens website. It is reproduced here with permission. If we didn’t have better things to do, it would be a simple matter to produce…