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 ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐7 ๐17 - ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด
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.
Shouting in the Gale Is there anybody out there? Can anyone hear me? Is there anyone home? The silence is deafening.
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.
Phenomena and Physicality Identity is not the phenomenal self, not the physical self, but the gap between them. It exists precisely in the negotiation; the friction of being simultaneously a perspective on one's life and a creature bound by the necessities of embodiment.
What is Truth? What is Evidence? The universe is logical in structure. Human beings are rational by phenomenological necessity. Truth is the correspondence between our claims and the facts. But 'correspondence' must be understood differently for different kinds of fact.
Satires 4: Welcome to the Enshittocene Cory Doctorow coined "enshittification" to describe what happens to online platforms. But once you see the pattern, you see it everywhere.
On Labour Transphobia I want to suggest that the differential treatment is not primarily about the personal moral failings of party leaders, though it is sometimes characterised that way. It is about structural and cultural factors that make one form of prejudice legible in mainstream politics and the other not
The Bullies in Your Life It is notable that the academic literature on bullying rarely uses the language of evil. The word appears in the research journals, if at all, only as a deprecated concept, a relic of pre-scientific moralising that has no place in a psychological account.
The Question of Cisgender Women and Trans Women A world in which women are taught to fear men is a world in which some women will fear those they mistake for men. A world in which biology is weaponised against those who do not conform is a world in which the biology of trans women will be used against them.
The Line That Touched Bottom This is the starting point for any honest reckoning with the question of intelligent life elsewhere in our galaxy. The question is not merely biological or cosmological. It is, at its heart, a question about scale. About what our models of the universe tell us and what they conceal
The Great Divider The whole 'technical versus university' learning schtick is not new. It has been around for a very long time. I should know: I've taught in both sectors and not too long ago was significantly involved in the 'T-Levels' initiative.
