Concentric thoughts on war-makers from an arachnid.
A dictator’s handbook for self-abuse
Category: Opinion
Reasoning with Rickerly
Why creative people do it. and why you should do it too.
The Freckleton Air Disaster
The tragic deaths of thirty-eight children, two teachers, seven other British civilians, four RAF sergeants and ten USAAF personnel in August 1944.
Psyche Gate
Last September, just before the Harris Museum in Preston closed for three years for renovations, I slipped in for a private rendezvous with a woman with whom I have secretly communed for many years. She never looks a day older. She says nothing, but imparts a great deal. I can't see her any more, and … Continue reading Psyche Gate
That’s me in the corner; with Judas, My Brother
The book that changed my afterlife; plus some thoughts on truth and belief and how to break the chains that link Putin, the pandemic and Pontius Pilate.
2020 Hindsight
It was uncomfortable to read that some people half my age were happy for me to be slowly suffocated so that they might “get our lives back”. They seemed content that I might receive my last orders so that they could get served at the bar a little sooner. They didn’t put it like that, … Continue reading 2020 Hindsight
Savouring Strawbs
An appreciation of the the music of the British rock band the Strawbs.
My nose has no dog
but it smells as fine as any canine The solution to controlling the coronavirus could be staring us in the face every time we lock eyes with a dog. Medical Detection Dogs is a charity that supplies dogs to sniff out the tell-tale signs of ailments including cancer, type 1 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and malaria. … Continue reading My nose has no dog
The New Norman
Thirteen lessons from the contagion invasion.
Cotton tithes matter
Preston, and scores of other Lancashire towns, prospered exponentially from the first wave of the Industrial Revolution. Their streets were paved with gold (for a few) because their sheets were plied with cotton. The cotton was cheap because the labourers who produced it were not paid. They were purchased. How should we declare our debt and pay our dues?
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