4, January, 2021
Why does social progress take so long? Why do some people resist change that will give us a better life?
24, July, 2020
We are programmed to hear the good story when we support something and the bad story when we oppose it. There are too many inconvenient truths.
28, April, 2020
Socialism and capitalism are often at war with one another but for our society to continue we must find ways to have them cooperate.
9, January, 2020
Environmentalism is about searching out the facts, then acting on them. There is too much 'virtue signalling' from some quarters to do something that has little impact but allows us to say we care about the planet.
4, December, 2019
25, October, 2019
Morality largely depends on your perspective. One person sees a particular incident as perfectly moral and another as totally immoral.
22, February, 2019
Media is a business out to make a profit. If providing us with what we say we want sold more newspapers, or got more viewers the media would do it. What do we really want?
2, October, 2018
How does the modern world stack up against older civilizations? What can we learn from the Incas?
5, May, 2018
There is usually a tension between business and government. Is this a good thing?
Looking at society and politics through a different lens!