Satires 5: The Farage Phenomenon

Nigel Farage is not Adolf Hitler. He is just a VERY naughty boy!

The Ghost of Gwydir

Gwydir asks nothing of you. It does not perform. It does not pretend to be more than it is. It is limestone and sandstone and centuries and silence, and it has always struck me as a place of unusual, almost uncomfortable honesty. The honesty of things that have survived.

Grieving and Loss

My grief for my partner was deep and suffocating and has lasted for years. It was the grief of a future that had been built together and then vanished overnight.

Installing Linux for Beginners

A Beginner's Guide to Installing the Linux Operating System as an Alternative to Microsoft Windows 11

The Telepathy Argument

Or why it's SO easy to read your thoughts. I don't even need to squint!

How to Exclude a Trans Person

In public debate about transgender people and single-sex spaces, a great deal of heat is generated by a profound ignorance of what the law actually says.

The Epilogue of the Long War

And yet the people in the trench do not only fight. They also live. They write papers and make music and fall in love and grow cacti and argue about philosophy on the internet and make jokes that no one outside their community could possibly find funny.

The Map Is Not the Territory

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and engineer who founded the discipline of General Semantics.

Violence Against Women and Girls in the United Kingdom

That argument is optimistic in a qualified sense. If the causes are structural, the solutions are also structural.

New Opportunities for Women

The NOW program was, by design, women-only. This was not an oversight — it was a pedagogical and political principle.

On Asylum Seekers and Immigration

Your questions answered. Or perhaps not? It depends on whether you think rationally or simply believe anything you're told on social media.

The Genius of Spike Milligan

from 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘚7 𝘌17 - 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴

Commentary on 'A Guide for NHS Staff'

Expanding on and developing material within the guide.

A Guide for NHS Staff

The EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations became operational on 5 August 2026

A Guide for Service Providers

The EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations became operational on 5 August 2026.

A Guide for Transgender People

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Code of Practice became operational on 5 August 2026

Totalitarian Thinking

The UK is in a dangerous position at the moment. Being reasonable just doesn't work when the very premise of a person's character rests on a 'mistake'. But it's an intended mistake, and it matters to those who believe it.

The Incomprehensible Present

Today we're in the middle of a baseless moral panic

Shouting in the Gale

Is there anybody out there? Can anyone hear me? Is there anyone home? The silence is deafening.

81 years ago, today

The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima, 6/8/1945

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young

So Abram rose...

The Gunner's Dream

from 'The Final Cut'.

Consciousness and the Prediction Engine

"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." (Morpheus, 'The Matrix')

Sonata No 2: A Phenomenology of Human Identity

A discussion of what makes us human in the era of reductionism, overdeterminism and disinformation.

Sonata No 1: Wigner's Friend and Wittgenstein's Universe

A Sonata of Physics and Philosophy