The recent US election has left many of us reeling with confusion and despair.

Whilst never having been a fan of US global hegemony, interventionism or the neo-liberal duopoly of US politics, this latest descent from neo-liberalism towards fascism takes us from the frying pan into the fire.

It is so saddening to […]

Toxic politics, misogyny as ideology, and tough guys that are really just insecure babymen. There is something very badly amiss with popular conceptions of what it means to be strong, especially for men, and it is having real consequences for all of us.

From Andrew Tate to Donald Trump, I am so over […]

The internet when it first appeared promised a new era of information democracy. The old media would lose control and new social movements, protests even revolutions could be organised from the bottom up from dispersed information sources. It was like that at first.

Progressive social movements are often first to take up new […]

The fear of uncertainty and the deceptive allure of binary thinking are both things I have written about before. Our living universe originates in a chaos so profoundly untrammelled that there is nothing to stop the continual process of emergent order, together with its eventual decay.

As humans we cling to the edge […]

We need to have a talk about fascism.

Never in my lifetime has the palpable risk of fascism been so high.

People who have lived through the violence and mendacity of fascism describe a common pre-curser: a collective collapse of reason, a retreat from rigorous evidence-based thinking, and emotionally healthy compassion. Fascism is […]