… body without mind is brutish; mind without body… is a running away from our double being … Richard Hoggart, Introduction to the 2nd Edition, 1961 Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the last novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, first … Read More »
The text and image below are taken from the website of a Health Centre in the USA. Similar can be found in the UK’s NHS literature and, I’ve no doubt, across the Western World at large. Yes, language does matter … Read More »
In a Guardian piece yesterday, on a resurgent far right, Jonathan Freedland referred deridingly to “the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones”. I seldom agree with either man but do have an opinion on the way “conspiracy theorist” has become a stock … Read More »
Condemning Putin is the safest, most redundant and least courageous thing that anyone in the western world can do right now. What’s a lot harder is taking a bold stand against the west’s depraved role in getting this war started … Read More »
Are you receiving the message loud and clear? Accuse the US of sabotaging Nord Stream and it’s a conspiracy theory. Accuse Russia of doing the same thing and it’s news. Not that both theories are equally well-evidenced. One wouldn’t expect … Read More »
My posts use footnotes a lot, in ways and for reasons I’ll come to in a moment. But first, and at risk of teaching granny to suck eggs, let me say that clicking on the inline numbered marker … … … Read More »
Over the decades since Reagan and Thatcher, Western economies have come to be dominated by finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors which, though highly profitable, create little new value. Rather these sectors, misleadingly counted as adding to GDP, recycle … Read More »
I say, I say – did you hear the one about Charles opening a leisure centre in Scunthorpe? On the big day, the streets were lined with scunners eager to catch sight of the man yet to be king. Finally … Read More »
Not that long ago I read Jan Oberg, Transnational Foundation for Peace co-founder, expanding Eisenhower’s MIC (military industrial complex) to MIMAC (military industrial media academia complex). Bear that in mind when reading what follows. Bear in mind too that the … Read More »
You could read that title in two ways but here I mean it in the acutely personal sense that, yes, I’m down with Covid. On Wednesday evening I was about to serve my highly acclaimed onions, peppers, sun dried tomatoes, … Read More »