by sustainablesociety | Jan 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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?...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Confidential 13th December 2019 Dear Donald, ‘In aqua et vagina victoriam’’ as my old housemaster used to say after several ales in the back bar of ‘The Nanny and Spanker’ in Windsor. Just thought I’d run my victory speech past you, as I so admire your erudition and...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 6, 2019 | Politics, Social Science, Uncategorized
“Humans, I have contended elsewhere, are simultaneously the products of biological, psychological and social mechanisms whilst retaining their agency. Acknowledgement must be made also of the sometimes mundane and sometimes dramatic interruptions of contingency....
by sustainablesociety | Aug 8, 2019 | Politics, Uncategorized
David Livingstone Smith’s ‘Dehumanisation’ thesis includes the following: “One common misconception of my position on dehumanization is that when one dehumanizes others one conceives of them as less than fully human. My position is that when one dehumanizes others,...
