by sustainablesociety | Mar 7, 2021 | Climate Change
Old Paradigms – New Norms. This forms the basis for a webinar on March 10th hosted by the University of Cork. I am currently based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, working with the Saudi Ministry of Health on their hugely ambitious Transformation Plan. Because of Covid...
by sustainablesociety | Nov 3, 2020 | Climate Change
“As matters now stand, every issue is hopelessly entangled in a snarl of emotions, stereotypes and irrelevant memories and associations.” (John Dewey) I sit down with friends and we discuss matters of various triviality and seriousness. A common theme often makes its...
by sustainablesociety | Sep 26, 2020 | Climate Change
When you’ve settled yourself into the seat at the cinema, and cursed that you have sat next to a big box of crunched popcorn and a giant tub of noisily slurped Cola held by someone with the eating etiquette of a half starved hyena, you know that what you are...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 13, 2020 | Climate Change
I like a pint. On occasion, I may be found in ‘The Sloop’ in St Ives, or the ‘Pilchard Press’ in the same seaside town. I like a pasty. A proper Cornish pasty stuffed with succulent steak wrapped in short crusty pasty oozing with gravy. I am...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 9, 2020 | Climate Change
The Right to Hate – Chris McGlade. “You tell me what I can say, you censor what I can’t.” This poem is an anti PC tirade against the London Metropolitan ‘liberal left’ (‘down in the smoke’) who stand accused of shutting down speech, of labelling white working-class...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 8, 2020 | Climate Change
How Come Labour got that many votes? The Tories in the General election of 2020 got 14 million votes, but Corbyn’s Labour got 10 million votes? How did he do that in the face of a culture war waged for over three years against him and waged for decades over his ideas?...
