While women (and many men) across the world are reacting to the US Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional … Read More
Babies, Body Rights and Big Brother: Thoughts on the US Abortion Ruling
Big Questions
1984 – Dystopian Fiction or Dystopian Fact?
Even though Stephen Fry reads every audiobook like it’s a bedtime story, even his mellifluous tones can’t conceal what an … Read More
Democracy or Chumocracy?
If you think our present government is doing an excellent job, our politicians are above reproach, and the British political … Read More
Come the (Fourth Industrial) Revolution
I’m curious about industrial revolutions from the perspective of workers, and I’d like your input. We are now supposedly going … Read More
Suicide, Selfishness and the Cycles of Life
Some people think suicide is an act of consummate selfishness, that the person who took their own life failed to … Read More
Katrina and The Shock Doctrine
Two very different perspectives of Hurricane Katrina appear in the book I’ve just finished, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, … Read More
The Shock Doctrine
Can human beings ever change without a shock to the system? We talk about wakeup calls – a bereavement, a … Read More
New Year – Happy?
I’ve been feeling some cognitive dissonance about wishing people a Happy New Year this time around. I’ve been feeling a … Read More
Presence and Presencing
A super-quick blog post today, heavily plagiarised from my doctoral dissertation, as I’m doing a full-time online course this week … Read More