The following is a symptom of anger. Anger on the out looking in. It is the reality for some but not for others. It derives from a sense of powerlessness. An inability to get the many to embrace enlightenment over darkness. The failure to persuade others to cast aside...
In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth.
With one breath, the friends of power told us that global capitalism was a dynamic, disruptive force, the source of constant innovation and change. With the next, they...
A few years ago I thought about how great it would be to see a film that was entirely positive without any negativity. Then I started to think this is perhaps impossible, because I mean, let’s face it how many minutes will someone be happy watching someone at the...
The refugee situation in Calais and Northern France continues to grow despite the ‘Jungle’ being cleared last summer and relative media silence since. According to long term volunteers from the Help Refugees warehouse in Calais, the number of refugees arriving has started growing again, sometimes 30 to 60 people over...
Without community, politics is dead. But communities have been scattered like dust in the wind. At work, at home, both practically and imaginatively, we are atomised. Politics, as a result, is experienced by many people as an external force, dull and irrelevant at best, oppressive and frightening at worst....
Have a go at these. The answers are at the bottom but don't cheat. 1. Which number is the odd one out? 84129, 32418, 47632, 36119, 67626, 72927 2. Find five consecutive numbers below that total 23? 947251739244572561854 3. What number replaces the question mark? 1, 2, 6, 12, 36,...
There is a new word in town. It is called 'Econocracy'. The aim is to create the impression that the economy is too difficult to understand and that it should be left to 'experts'. 'Leave it to the government as only they understand its complexities'.
However, with a country riddled...
I've been extremely frustrated, as I'm sure are most of my friends, about the fact that the main stream media and right wing political elements within our own party have been targeting Jeremy Corbyn and his followers and how this undisputed negative influence has impacted on Labour's polling. We...
I believe in a capitalistic world, in my view, the Conservative party have been the best party to have lead and develop us into this modern era. Thanks to the Thatcher boom, capitalism was taken out of the hands of the few and into the hands of the masses....
Right now our education system is doing more to indoctrinate our children than to educate them. In fact, that has been the case for quite some time. Our young minds are being told to accept authority as truth instead of truth as authority, and teachers talk at the students instead of with them. Teachers...
