Article Index

List of articles in category Blog
Title	Published Date
Two sides of the same coin	08 Aug 2024
Greens on the Move?	06 Jul 2024
Marching (or riding) Song for Gaza	30 Nov 2023
Writing to the MP, reply and response	02 Nov 2023
Back again	02 Nov 2023
A Poem for Stupidnation Day	06 May 2023
Energy Costs	17 Nov 2022
Musings on a Road Trip	16 Nov 2022
Dancin' Again	04 Jul 2022
So What Did You Do in Seventy Two?	02 Jun 2022
In Praise of Caitlin	24 Apr 2022
So what IS a poor boy to do?	12 Feb 2022
Stop Oil? Then stop kidding us.	08 Feb 2022
A bit of R & R	27 Jan 2022
Practical Activism	21 Jan 2022
A journey through words	13 Dec 2021
Fossil Fuels and Reverence for Nature	27 Nov 2021
Action In the Pipeline	25 Nov 2021
Is Activism a Dead End?	23 May 2021
No posts for another year	22 May 2021
Another Five Month Hiatus	02 Jan 2020
Rupert Read : Comments on recent writings	29 Jul 2019
A Five Month Interregnum	23 Jul 2019
MSM and the OSI Model	17 Feb 2019
MSM - what is it good for?	16 Feb 2019

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The myth of progress is to us what the myth of god-given warrior prowess was to the Romans, or the myth of eternal salvation was to the conquistadors: without it, our efforts cannot be sustained. Onto the root stock of Western Christianity, the Enlightenment at its most optimistic grafted a vision of an Earthly paradise, towards which human effort guided by calculative reason could take us. Following this guidance, each generation will live a better life than the life of those that went before it. History becomes an escalator, and the only way is up. On the top floor is human perfection. It is important that this should remain just out of reach in order to sustain the sensation of motion.

Uncivilisation - The Dark Mountain Manifesto. Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine. 2009

August 2024
- Two sides of the same coin
July 2024
- Greens on the Move?
November 2023
- Marching (or riding) Song for Gaza
- Writing to the MP, reply and response
- Back again
May 2023
- A Poem for Stupidnation Day
November 2022
- Energy Costs
- Musings on a Road Trip
July 2022
- Dancin' Again
June 2022
- So What Did You Do in Seventy Two?
April 2022
- In Praise of Caitlin
February 2022
- So what IS a poor boy to do?
- Stop Oil? Then stop kidding us.
January 2022
- A bit of R & R
- Practical Activism
December 2021
- A journey through words
November 2021
- Fossil Fuels and Reverence for Nature
- Action In the Pipeline
May 2021
- Is Activism a Dead End?
- No posts for another year
January 2020
- Another Five Month Hiatus
July 2019
- Rupert Read : Comments on recent writings
- A Five Month Interregnum
February 2019
- MSM and the OSI Model
- MSM - what is it good for?
- Strategy - some thoughts with respect to XR
November 2018
- of Vegans
October 2018
- No Fly Sundays
August 2018
- The Individual and the Collective
- Population
- Deep Adaptation and the new Three R’s
- Confessions
- Pedalling for Palestine
July 2018
- No and what?
- Anarcho-Syndicalist Jam
- With a Trumpty Trump, trump trump trump
- The Revolution Starts Here (maybe)
June 2018
- of Dancing
- A Lovely day in the Levels
May 2018
- The Fall of Wikipedia
- In Praise of Mr.Murray
- Fiddling While the Planet Burns
April 2018
- Strange Days
March 2018
- How Many, Not How Fast
January 2018
- So Where ARE the Greens
December 2017
- What is a Revolution
November 2017
- Where's The Ecology Party When You Need It?
September 2017
- Vanguard and Anarchy
July 2017
- Of Roots, Trunks, and Branches
- We Need to Talk About UKIP
June 2017
- Onwards and Upwards
- This Civilisation is Finished...
- Getting Back to Important Matters
- Reading the Past
May 2017
- Boxing the Green Compass
- Those who fail to learn from history repeat it
March 2017
- The Race is On
February 2017
- Cutting to the Chase
January 2017
- Migration Effects
- Limits to Rights
- 2016 was a Good Year
December 2016
- Shallow is Not Necessarily Bad
November 2016
- of Progress and Continuity
- Developers vs Conservationists
October 2016
- of Protests and Petitions
- Direct, Indirect, Violent, non-Violent : or simply effective
September 2016
- Disrupt More, Disconnect Less
- Movement for Ecology
- The Importance of Insignificance
August 2016
- The Desire to be Inside
- Alliances - Progressive, Regressive, or Ineffective?
- Fear and Hope
June 2016
- Patriotism, Nationalism and Fascism
- Environment is not an Ecological System
- The Protection Racket
- Learning from History
- Thoughts before voting
- yEUk
May 2016
- Acceptance
- So Now I Know What a Rat Feels Like ...
April 2016
- Drifting Off Course
- Step Away From The Light
August 2014
- Sacred Awe
July 2014
- The Green Party Deputy Leader Hustings