The Bureaucratic and Authoritarian Implications of “The Science”
One of the victims of covid and the reactions to the pandemic, has been the reputation of science. This is best summed up in the…
Read MorePolitics, Science and Technology 5th May 2022
One of the victims of covid and the reactions to the pandemic, has been the reputation of science. This is best summed up in the…
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Morality, Politics, Unity and Diversity 28th August 2017
There are many moral issues relating to the plight of refugees and migrants in our world today we could usefully give attention to. But there is no compulsion to support or advocate freedom of movement as part of a moral response. Ultimately the degree to which freedom of movement is allowed between nations is a political decision with moral arguments capable of being made on both sides.
Politics, Science and Technology 5th May 2022
One of the victims of covid and the reactions to the pandemic, has been the reputation of science. This is best summed up in the…
Culture, Philosophy 6th August 2020
In 2008 I authored a piece for an international organisation entitled ‘A Charter for Marriage: Reconsidering the Foundations of Marriage for Twenty First Century Secular…
Sketch 22nd August 2018
Zarathustra resolved to choose twelve disciples that he might send them forth to preach in his name. But lo, he saw that the village was made up of simple working-class people who did not have the benefit like himself of a degree in postmodern studies with a major in critical theory. So he chose from among them a multiracial group, which is to say in its politically correct definition a selection excluding any persons who could be construed as racially white, because he was aware from sociological research recently reported by Zoe Williams in The Guardian that there is no such thing as white working class, except insofar as it is characterised by a racist attitude.
Philosophy, Science and Technology 27th April 2019
These past two weeks have seen an escalation in ecological activism with protesters taking control of the arteries of major cities in the UK, bringing…
Morality, Philosophy, Politics 5th April 2018
Happily, the inconsistency and incoherence of the postmodernist perspective is increasingly being challenged by a new generation of thinkers from across the political spectrum. For example Ken Wilber in his Trump and a Post-Truth World notes how postmodernism has played itself out and in attempting to create a new basis for determining truth has ultimately undermined it.