The Art Of Life
What is Wrong with Happiness? The question in the title would baffle many a reader. And it is...
Category: Truth
Arabian Sands
From Abyssinia I was sent to Syria, where I served in Jabal al Druze and later worked for a year...
Quantum weirdness isn’t weird
If we accept objects don’t exist… There is a chair in front of me. A nice red wooden...
Congratulations, By The Way
Down through the ages, a traditional form has evolved for this type of speech, which is: Some old...
Progressive and radical activist training materials
** LAST UPDATED 28th APR 2021 **In the progressive, radical and activist communities there is a...
Brit(ish)
In the 1770s, a talented black man – born a slave, mid-Atlantic, on a ship – whose friends...
Waterlog
I wanted to follow the rain on its meanderings about our land to rejoin the sea, to break out of...
Landmarks
I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding...
An Outline Of Intellectual Rubbish
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. One of the most...
Brit(ish)
I realised that I had what Sam did not. Even when it’s quite clear that people around me are...
The Course Of Love
Pronouncing a lover “perfect” can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.
The Etymologicon
Heckling is, or once was, the process of removing the knots from wool. Sheep are notoriously...
