Excellent discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFvE...

Absolutely

And what of the elite billionaire sociopaths who with their hangers-on run the world whilst exploiting, deceiving, impoverishing (in all ways) others, contributing to the planet's destruction? Each in his and her many & compartmentalised, fragmented selves? Their excuses, denials, negations?

🚨Gorton and Denton by-election “I’ve said it time and time again - we need to leave the ECHR” says Reforms candidate Matt Goodwin The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. It grants our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials. And so much more

Entirely reasonable that there's so much fury that a jury of 12 ordinary people, having heard all the evidence, has reached a verdict that does not accord with the directions of the judge, Starmer's government and the billionaire-owned media. Who do these people think they are?

If asked to describe the major features of the Epstein archipelago looming out of its offshore dark money and billionaire kompromat - I’d say Putin, Trump, Musk, Bannon and Thiel And with that you have a map of our current political era

Existence as embodied: we *are* our bodies, ie we don't "have" bodies. Extract from Mick Cooper, Existential Therapies, 2nd edition, Sage 2017

On the existential phenomenological first person perspective à la mode de Kierkegaard et al.

The Kierkegaardian meaning of 'my death' according to Gordon Marino.

Fair's fair. Lest we throw out baby with bathwater, remember the great stuff www.classical-music.com/articles/ame...

Matthew Goodwin is a key node in Reform’s growing ties to autocratic Hungary 👇🏻

From the Guardian, which also cited German media references. i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a2...

Just reading again Gordon Marino's wonderful, inspiring little book 'The Existentialist's Survival Guide', and -- this, from Camus: 'Above all, in order to be, never try to seem'.

Taken from a talk by social psychology Prof Sheldon Solomon a few years ago on the relationship between expressions of hatred and the uniquely human fear of death. (You might need to pause the video every so often if it runs too fast to read the text.)

For more of Bryan Magee's Pensées, see See www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2021/0...

See www.autoheterosexual.com

The problem when trying to rehabilitate Trump’s attachment to old European alliances is that his politics and character are aligned with the dark forces that had to be defeated for those alliances to exist. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There's a lesson here ... The dugongs now: and later? youtu.be/-GFb39Avq4g

The madness gets madder & madder. Where will all this end? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Excellent, thoughtful, informed video. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJx...

From 2025 ‘We’re Witnessing the Last Gasp of Israeli Violence’: In Conversation With Avi Shlaim ‘Zionism is in the process of destroying itself.’ by Sebastian Shehadi 21 March 2025 novaramedia.com/2025/03/21/w...

Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief, BMJ: 'Richard Smith measures Trump’s administration against 14 characteristics of fascism and finds that it scores highly'

1. America is finally waking up to the fact that it's now living in a neo-fascist regime.

Being in the moment: Courtenay Young A Phenomenological Model in the Practice of Psychotherapy psychcomp.courtenay-young.co.uk/courtenay/ar...

"Fudge (Farage’s nickname)..." Fudge!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Early History of the Concept of Autogynephilia Ray Blanchard Ph.D.  www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@drrayblanchard.bsky.social (Following up) I put this together after a holiday in Portsmouth, 2017. Sorry I don't know who the singers are & I probably shd take it down soon (copyright?) The photos are mine tho. I'm more of a modern classical music fan myself but the older styles are

Human beings are only modestly dimorphic. But boy are we aware of the dimorphisms! -- The late psychologist Dr. C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genps...

I've only just seen this. It's like reading about a totally different couple of cases. But it does show this ghastly battle isn't over. novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...

"[M]onasteries were also places of learning, and of refuge for travellers and the sick. Monks and nuns were secluded from the world, but the world came to them. www.classical-music.com/features/com...

Worth watching again. And again. And ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtO...

Brilliant interview. Just brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO-L...

The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

And the difference between US and Russian belligerent aggression is? At least in the latter case, the provocations of Nato were some excuse. Two monsters of which one is by far the worse.

Togetherness ... it's all we have, really ...

1st of 4 from Haaretz, link to original at #4 below.

The rest of us might as well give up now. Resistance is useless? blockchain.news/ainews/china...

Thank you all for your support over the past year. It's been another difficult year, designed to crush our spirits and our belief that change is possible. It lightens the burden to share it with so many other like-minded souls. I wish us all a more just and peaceful year ahead.