What of fossil-powered speed – the borrowed muscular lives of fossilised years? Do we forget ourselves in consequence? . What of two people walking side by side? They are more or less equal until they step into what money can … Continue reading
In this book, there are two principle enclosures, that of land and that of status, which effect everyone directly and perniciously. There is also intellectual property, which is pernicious to all indirectly and to a few, directly. . For more … Continue reading
Just as we can love an island set in a silver sea, not for the extent of its borders but for what it holds, so we can love our lives, not for the extent of their liberties, but for what … Continue reading
Climate change is upon us and so what follows is very much more of the same, because the same is accelerating in its malignant potency and the very same that has been said, needs to be said with an even … Continue reading
Some sweet day, we shall gather at the river and be renewed… The crooked ways will be made straight and the last fears unbound. We’ll reflect beneath the shade of ancient trees, that generations will rest there too – the … Continue reading
I recoil from the foul cess of the Brexit campaign – the bigotry, racism, scape-goat-ism and also, the entitlement to above-the-law criminality, yet I also recoil from the equally foul cess of de-humanised, corporate-supplied, big-is-beautiful trade blocks, such as the … Continue reading
I don’t think I can do whatever I like. I don’t think I have unlimited rights to express my creativity, sexuality and so on – though I do have some rights. In truth, we cannot be creative in a world … Continue reading
