I love history – and I love historical monuments. I love the feeling of walking in the footsteps of people hundreds and thousands of years past and the feeling of connection and continuity you get. But the outcry over the…
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Hypocrisy
We should all unequivocally condemn the Charlie Hebdo killings as crimes of fascism. That’s what muslim fundamentalists are. That is their ideology. It is visible in their strategy. They should not be placated or made allowances for – ever. But…
The Only Church That Illuminates…
For many years it seems us secularists have been too timid in our defence of our liberties. Despite people of no religious views now forming the second largest religious classification in the UK (after the largely nominal followers of the…
Tagged with: Charlie Hebdo, religion, secularism
Posted in Culture, Inequality, Knowledge, Politics, Power, Religion
Posted in Culture, Inequality, Knowledge, Politics, Power, Religion
The Medicalisation Of Resistance
With the bandwagon jumping skills that have got him where he is today, Nick Clegg has used conjunction of the Lib-Dem Conference and World Mental Health Day to announce that the coalition will spend the princely sum of £120 million…
Tagged with: Mental Health, Nick Clegg, poverty, World Mental Health Day
Posted in Health, Inequality, Knowledge, Politics, Power
Posted in Health, Inequality, Knowledge, Politics, Power
Will We Ever End This Cycle Of Brutality?
No-one can look at the pictures of David Haines with his baby daughter or at the picture of him grim-faced and kneeling in his orange boiler suit, knowing he will never see his daughter again, never be there to comfort…
Will You Salute The Curtains Or The Tablecloth?
While Scottish Independence is largely a matter for the Scottish people that’s not to say I don’t have a view – even if it is one of considered indifference. While Conservatives are at once both horrified at the break up of…
Tagged with: Globalization, Indy Ref, Nationalism, Scottish Independence, TTIP
Posted in Class, Nationalism, Politics, Power
Posted in Class, Nationalism, Politics, Power
The Welfare State?
The State wishes it to be known that although it clearly couldn’t give a monkeys about working class kids being abused, it will launch a man-hunt should loving parents disagree with medical opinion. At a time when many of those…
Of Gove and Gramsci: A Battle for Hearts and Minds
Of Gove and Gramsci: A Battle for Hearts and Minds. An excellent article from the Norwich Radical.
D-Day – And Every Day
In the 1930s and 40s our fathers and grandfathers fought fascism on the streets of London – and then went off to fight it overseas. Most of them didn’t like to talk about it much. They wanted the country to…
In Praise Of Health & Safety
As far as I’m concerned we should ban umbrellas for anyone who can’t carry them higher than 6ft from the ground! Yeah, you might not want to get wet – but I don’t want to lose an eye. It’s not just the…
On The Matter Of Boots 
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