I can’t resist commenting on some contemporary events, history and facets of society and politics. Here is a list of posts in the categories society, politics, history.

• Covid-19 in England and France (10/18/2021)
• Chinon (10/14/2021)
• Fontevraud, Royal Abbey (10/8/2021)
• Incredulous, amused, bonkers, sad, insecure (9/16/2021)
• Cigarettes, gas guzzlers, and the power of corporate interests (8/9/2021)
• Thomas Cromwell (8/4/2021)
• A question of balance? (7/30/2021)
• Billionaire man (7/29/2021)
• Blue Green Algae (7/22/2021)
• Are we insane? (7/18/2021)
• Avebury (7/14/2021)
• If we don’t love the Earth (7/11/2021)
• Saint Richard Whiting (6/22/2021)
• Indigenous Peoples Day, lessons in environmental stewardship and more (6/21/2021)
• Dissolution (6/19/2021)
• Gog and Magog – ancient oaks (6/18/2021)
• The Power of Systems Thinking: Beyond the Reductionist Mindset (4/16/2021)
• Dark Regions of The Country of The Mind (4/10/2021)
• All doomed? (3/25/2021)
• Lockdown King Street (3/20/2021)
• Melchett Mere (3/12/2021)
• A dead tree (3/11/2021)
• Economics catching up? (2/17/2021)
• The Fall (2/16/2021)
• New Renaissance vision – 25 years on (1/23/2021)
• The Fight for The Fens (1/22/2021)
• My Fens (1/13/2021)
• Reality is Now the Enemy! (1/11/2021)
• That was 2020 on this blog (1/7/2021)
• Out of the Wreckage (1/5/2021)
• Not the yellow headlights (1/1/2021)
• Breughel on Knutsford Heath (12/31/2020)
• A COVID Christmas message (12/24/2020)
• Nationalism is a psychological aberration (12/23/2020)
• Will things be better in 2021? Read on… (12/19/2020)
• The Argument for Free Speech & Against Censorship (12/11/2020)
• Agonism (12/3/2020)
• Hope in Hell (11/18/2020)
• The techie problem (11/4/2020)
• The Old Man of Calke (10/31/2020)
• Politics as my Footnote (10/29/2020)
• We are tired of this blindness (10/28/2020)
• Give us back the dark (10/24/2020)
• Could the goodies lose? (10/8/2020)
• Irredeemable? (10/6/2020)
• Fake. News. (9/16/2020)
• Black Swan (7/8/2020)
• Women leaders and coronavirus: look beyond stereotypes to find the secret of their success (7/7/2020)
• Our Story (6/11/2020)
• Time for change, but will we? (5/24/2020)
• VE Day (5/8/2020)
• America’s issue with socialism, so that’s what it’s all about (5/7/2020)
• Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good (4/26/2020)
• Covid-19 – why now? (4/24/2020)
• Night walks in lockdown (4/23/2020)
• Has neo-liberalism reached use-by date? Ayn Rand and the failure of philosophy (4/18/2020)
• Time for the Magic Money Tree (4/15/2020)
• After Covid-19 – humanity at the crossroads (4/10/2020)
• The five freedoms (4/3/2020)
• Dalai Lama’s message (4/2/2020)
• Chickens coming home (3/13/2020)
• The coronavirus outbreak – the economic impact (2/23/2020)
• Ambition Unbridled (2/21/2020)
• End of an Empire (2/20/2020)
• Pity the Nation: the handwriting was on the wall (2/3/2020)
• So That’s It (1/31/2020)
• Enantiodromia (1/31/2020)
• Trade Deals (1/29/2020)
• A Berlin Wall Moment? (1/24/2020)
• Kindness, compassion, and post-truth (1/20/2020)
• Stakeholders and Davos (1/15/2020)
• How can climate change not be the main goal of all countries in 2020? Canada?! (1/14/2020)
• Canada Declares Peace (1/10/2020)
• Antibacterial soaps (1/9/2020)
• Crystallised thinking? (1/7/2020)
• Maintain Your Rage (1/6/2020)
• Wrapping up a tumultuous year (12/26/2019)
• Do not despair. There is Hope!     (12/23/2019)
• Everybody Knows (12/14/2019)
• The Flip (12/14/2019)
• Their Inheritance (12/11/2019)
• At the Hustings (12/6/2019)
• Light in Dark Times (12/5/2019)
• Kindness is key to health and happiness, and it’s free! (11/29/2019)
• The Magic of Vézelay (11/27/2019)
• The One Reality (11/26/2019)
• Humanity’s Endgame, or New Beginning? (11/20/2019)
• Think before you post. (11/18/2019)
• Power of Words (11/7/2019)
• The Magic of Psychosynthesis (11/1/2019)
• Porta Nigra (10/31/2019)
• The Narrative (10/28/2019)
• The First Supermarket (10/22/2019)
• Charlemagne’s Cathedral (10/20/2019)
• “Brexit is the will of the British people” is complete nonsense (10/16/2019)
• Aix la Chapelle (10/11/2019)
• MLK Jr. On Getting ‘Woke’ in 1965 (10/10/2019)
• The Big Egos (10/9/2019)
• Shooting Wildlife (10/7/2019)
• The Shortest History of Germany (9/20/2019)