Various loons on Facebook and Twitter a pushing yet another narrative where they promote a helplessness in the people that follow it. They call it the great reset. Essentially Covid and the climate crisis are a deliberate thing that comes from yet another inaginary cabal far away and a great
Centrists often tweet at me saying that supporting the Corbyn project was a mistake. Blair is the only Labour leader who consistently won elections, and, of course, socialism won’t work. Just saying stop talking bollocks doesn’t help. Everyone who knows realises that Corbyn was sabotaged and it’s
I’ve been working on Tales for a long time. The first book was started in Google Docs in June 2017 I had the last novella Zerø Day in what felt like a finished but not quite ready state for a few months and hadn’t pushed it out as
What follows is some notes for discussion. Please read, make some comments, let’s try and make this better. Also, please be kind, I have lost patience with people who criticise when they have nothing to offer. (Note – this is still being written and is in draft) — Covid-19: A better
1. Boris Johnson did not attend the first five emergency government meetings 2. In the early stages Johnson was more focused on the EU withdrawal & his cabinet reshuffle 3. Johnson spent 12 days on a country retreat holiday in February – while his ministers, medical and science experts were discussing
Darling Albion We already reaped a bitter harvest A mountain of dead This time at home, in no time of war, instead of brown people far away We hoped enough would see The suffering, the starving children, rotting houses, This time at home, in no time of war, instead of
Finally published book 3, Better Way in the series Tales of a Brighter Future https://leanpub.com/better-way About to send it off to my friendly readers The book was originally called B Train, and I wanted to change the name to Walk Away and I realised that Corey Doctrow
I hear tomorrow roaring down at me Relentless fire Everything you love will one day be gone But So will all you hate And that’s fine It’s better Better than better So death or just temporary silent sleep Before some complex chain of circumstance, cause and condition Throws
Another seemingly small thing is dignity. We’ve all got to let everyone have their dignity. It was hard coming from a place where controlling other people was a normal and even approved of us all being controlled. A place where a tiny number of people who owned everything got
Rewarding people is always a bit fraught. Several things can happen, sometimes at the same time. First the rewards can come to be expected, so they aren’t rewards any more, then people get very pissed off when they don’t happen for whatever reason. Then you could be the
“If something inside you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write towards vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about
The old Stoic writer Seneca was very concerned with making sure noble young men (well it was men in that society) understood that the best thing you could do was accept whatever happens. He also pointed out that everything comes to an end, and if you were to die before