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Jan 24, 2017

"....And we all walked away with our dignity in tact"

Labour and the Democrats( the Left) have in common the 'Solaris'like resurrections in political fortune.Tory and Republican hegemony has...

Jan 13, 2017

When can private property transcend commerce?

As a Painter I feel elevated by the experience and the attempts at originality, yet I find it difficult to lend-out or permanently let go...

Jan 11, 2017

Twas not mixed equally

"Twas not mixed equally" (J.Donne) How to unpackage the conspiratorial is the key to understanding ideology in most of its forms. "You've...

Jan 4, 2017

What Does Lie Behind the Concept of Sin as a Catholic?

Introduction Central to Catholicism is the understanding of sin, but in wider society we find more contemporary associations and...

Dec 16, 2016

Who really won the post-Soviet era?

Who really won the post-Soviet era? Let me describe the state of humiliation felt by Russia, which was at its height under Boris Yeltsin,...

Dec 8, 2016

Aesthetic Regicide

Abstract Expressionism (AE) remains guilty of aesthetic regicide by reducing the medium of Painting to formalistic determinism (imposing...

Dec 7, 2016

Coup de Grace rather than Bienvenu

Coup de Grace rather than Bienvenu, or 'Action Painting overshadows its opposite'. Guilty by association,many works of genuine profundity...

Dec 5, 2016

Ideological Affiliations or blind obedience or blind disobedience?

Self-interest determined USSR in losing the 'Cold War'. The Soviets would have done their arithmetic - lose face for a generation who...

Dec 5, 2016

The Time for licking our wounds is over

We have accepted our diminished role in global affairs, even our diminishing role in Europe (despite the Italians seeming to prefer the...

Dec 1, 2016

Ideologically Inert

Labour's electoral failure recently(nationwide and internally) is systematically based upon a fixation with the 1945-50 Labour...

Nov 24, 2016

Political Alaska where danger lies but blamed on the 'scapegoat' of originality

Perhaps one of the most precarious moments in recent political history was when the ex Soviet Union ceded power to the Americans - namely...

Nov 21, 2016

Odd bedfellows/ Strange or logical?

There does seem to be a change of a sociological nature centered around a Post Thatcherist era and a birth of new hierarchies outside...

Nov 18, 2016

Popularism, nationalism, soft targets and soft touches

"Gingerism" not "gingerization". When our tongues have been loosened and political correctness goes out of the window, the tired wit, if...

Nov 16, 2016

'You find a way'

'You find a way' was Ted Hughes' response when subjected to personal conflict and the fear of being unable to write poetry that...

Nov 14, 2016

Firewall

Sharing a dream doesn't have to be a nightmare. Like Alice I'm falling until I land in a coal mine. Trapped I have only got a paint brush...

Oct 26, 2016

The construction of the economy stupid

Why 'stop the city' when you can rebuild non London-centric urban competitors in the rest of Britain? It's the construction of the...

Oct 25, 2016

Are Labour homeless or will self-destruct win Corbyn the political pools one day?

Does the Labour party not deal with ideology when it keeps pretending it has has a total makeover? Will Corbyn do Old labour,new labour...

Oct 11, 2016

Cold War

Was Britain preparing for utter nuclear destruction in Europe as the preferred theatre of war choice of USA and much of the Soviet Union?...

Oct 10, 2016

Reason for Imperfect reason

Introduction Advances in recent studies in neurobiology have provided us with a new neuroscientific analysis of the image of the Painter...

Oct 6, 2016

A killing machine and a corrupter

Introduction Germany was the source of Nazism, Britain didn't call time early enough to prevent it spreading, Vichy France bottled it and...