One of the great social and cultural critics of the last century, Ivan Illich, died 18 years ago now – and his teaching is largely…
One of the great social and cultural critics of the last century, Ivan Illich, died 18 years ago now – and his teaching is largely…
This week, for reasons I won’t go into, I have had to travel to the US. I have to say that I did so with…
Dear Ed I very much enjoyed your first speech to the virtual Lib Dem conference this week. The party has survived so far, but rather…
ralysis: How will it end? In April this year, we recommended a viewing of this interview with Professor Johan Giesecke, the former Swedish State Epidemiologist,…
My next door neighbour turned up at the care home, where his wife is dying, for her 90th birthday this week and was told he…
I’ve just come back from lunch at a local place. The owner went into a rant about the illogicality of the government’s new rules around…
They say that a week is a long time in politics, but a week seems an eternity in a Covid-19 world. Not only do the…
For the third time in a little over a century, we have officials and politicians reassuing us that “it will all be over by Christmas”….
Those of us brought up with Dad’s Army, and similar Second World War domestic dramas will remember the phrase: “Don’t you know there’s a war…