My Blog
A SEA ETHIC
The sea makes up about 70% of the Earth’s crust. This planet from space is blue rather than green or brown. The sea has larger biodiversity than a rain forest. Yet...
EUROPE’S LOST CIVILIZATION: THE SOCIETY OF THE MEGALITH BUILDERS
It’s time to remember the great connection between the earth and the heaven, the microcosm and the microcosm. ‘As above, so below’, as they say in alchemy. It is...
MIDSUMMER AT STONEHENGE
I was at the last free festival in Windsor (The Peoples’ Free Festival) in 1974, the theme of which was justice and peace, when the police came at dawn in order to...
PATRIOTISM AND THE TIDAL WAVE OF HATRED
There is a Tsunami of hatred at the moment, according to the UN. The worldwide coronavirus has triggered off countries to close their borders, with their leaders trying...
THE ARCHITECTURE OF OPPRESSION
We certainly see the architecture of oppression in many countries at the moment. There have been pandemics before and there will be pandemics in the future. What we...
GOOD FOR SOME, NOT FOR OTHERS
There is an upside to this pandemic among humans. With less production and consumption because people are staying at home following a recommended lockdown, many are...
FIGHT OR FLEE
As always we have the choice to fight or flee, to look after ourselves or others, to be anxious and nervous or stay steady and firm. As the history of Thucydides (when...
CORONA VIRUS
The virus seems to be on most people's minds for the time being and no one can be certain where it will lead us. The world's capitalist economies are in free fall (good...
BREXIT AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Today Britain has left the European Union. I initially voted for Brexit in the referendum when I was abroad because it seemed to promise greater sovereignty and...
Peter Marshall’s impressive history is a well-argued and absorbing account of astrology’s grip on the imagination, and an eloquent defence of its importance in our lives … fascinating
Gary Lachman, The Guardian
Reading about anarchism is stimulating and funny and sad. What more can you ask of a book?