Psychedelic Therapy – “Love is the Glue”
Editor’s Note: Previously Frank Armstrong reviewed Michael Pollan’s journey through the use of psychedelics. Here…
Browsing: 2019December
Democracy in Decay: Steve Bannon & Jordan Peterson
The intellectual decay associated with Jordan Peterson has provided the soil wherein Steve Bannon’s seedlings have germinated.
On Procrastination
2019 has taught us all we need to know about Mortality. So many writers, musicians,…
Predictions 2020: 5G Rollout, Trump Card & Reuters Report
Five predictions for 2020: The Trump Card, an analysis of the Reuters Institute Digital News…
The Late Risers’ Manifesto 2020
Today it is shameful to be unemployed and regarded as an achievement to sell oneself…
Poetry in 2020: ‘Dream and so create’
At the end of 2019, I wrote: In these times it is perhaps inevitable that…
The Public Intellectual Series: Noam Chomsky
They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness. John Milton,…
Musician of the Month: Hilary Woods
The Year Past and Ahead In October last, I was at a Russian Circles…
Twenty Questions for Bob Quinn
We sent twenty questions to Maverick film maker Bob Quinn who published ten excerpts of…
U.K. Election 2019 – Optimism, Despair and the Fingerprints of Steve Bannon
Long Term Patterns: the U.K. Prefers Oxford University-Educated Conservative Prime Ministers. Only Winston Churchill, and…
Old Man Talk – ‘I used to ride young wans in here’
I made the following notes in an old factory that was built in 1906 at…
Public Intellectual Series: Michel Foucault
I wrote what follows prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and have been prompted to re-read…
Special Report: Punitive Policies Inflict Further Exclusion and Trauma on Syrian Refugee Children
The future of a generation born during over eight years of conflict in Syria is…
Bull Moose – In Praise of Uncivil Discourse
When truth is the casualty, everyone suffers. For new Americans, spending Thanksgiving in the U.S.…
Silent Night or a New Christmas Carol from Greta Thunberg?
I especially enjoy visiting the Austrian side of my family around Salzkammergut during Christmas. The…
Not in Our Name – the Fall and Fall of Conor McGregor
Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is…
To Advance We Must Stop: Two Weeks of Protests in Bogotá
A national strike was called in Colombia for Thursday, the 21st of November. In Bogotá,…
Garden of Forgetting
Back in the 1990s, you may not believe this, even if you actually lived through…
Randal McDonnell – ‘I’d gladly strike the first match at his cremation and spit paraffin on his embers’
I was sickened to read a fawning obituary to an absolute creep and impostor Randal…
Jeremy Corbyn, Percy Shelley and Ireland
The Irish media generally looks askance at Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘radical socialist manifesto.’[i] An historically warm…