The Problem For All Political Parties Is Really To Do With Their Structures: Third Party Management Of Their Membership Is Just Like The Post War Old Fashioned Gatekeeping Of Class, Race, Age And Gender….(We Don’t Really Represent Everybody Properly)

Featured image: Visual Capitalist: What The Big Data companies Have On You We need better representation of more people, more of the time. And when we create tools to help effect difference and change as well as the means to track and surveil all kinds of crime then we’ll understand that the problems of ethics […]

signsofanopencity: How Artist John Newling Forsaw A Kinder, More Generous Future….Opening The Way To Something New…

Featured Image: Artist of what’s below, beneath and above us, John Newling There’s a relationship between the imagination and the future, what’s coming, that we dream, that we need to cherish. I thought about this when I noticed a connection between the building work in progress by J Tomlinson and others in the refurbishment and […]

Mowing Pastures Green: Nottingham’s Best Kept Secret….Gardening Services At The Right Price

Featured Image: Garden Clearance and Maintenance Company Mowing Pastures Green company logo Donald Trump has created and is remembered for all kinds of words and phrases: yuge, bigly, believe me, we/they, great (as in I will build a great wall), incredible, fake news, tremendous, a lot of money…. Whatever you think about Donald’s understanding and delivery […]

Discussion About My Optimism And Your Pessimism: Living Longer, Happier And More Productive Lives For Everyone

Above: Louis Armstrong Basin Street Blues 1928 I have a real problem with the attention ‘assisted dying’ gets in the media, mainly because I think that if we discussed unequal access to privileged services and underprivileged services through marketing segmentation that we’d have a completely different view of society. If we agreed that, really we […]

Away with You Referenda (and The Simulacrum of The Brexit Company PLC): We Need A Complex Representational Democracy That Will Stimulate Diverse Economies…..

Above: The Three Wealthiest People In the US Now Own More Wealth Than The Bottom Half Of The Country Combined How to be tough, how to be resilient. How to be strong and kind and good. How not to be prey, or to prey upon others: to overcome the vested interests around gender, age, race […]

Behold The Man: Ian McKellen At Nottingham Playhouse: £50,000:Opening Doors To What Theatre Is….

Above: Ian Mckellen reading from Dylan Thomas, (after Cardiff he’s on to Northcott, Exeter). He’s an extraordinary good fellow, Ian Mckellen: like Shakespeare using the imagination to understand war, conflict and fighting a path through to a lasting peace, he’s a man for all the right reasons. You’ll recognise his face, celebrity and presence from his amazing […]

Ian Mckellen Press Release: If You Missed The Nottingham Playhouse Solo Show Here’s The List of UK Dates

Ian McKellen on Stage: Tolkien, Shakespeare and You! UK Tour 25 January – 15 September 2019 West End Limited Run 20 September 2019 – 5 January 2020 Ian McKellen: ‘I’m celebrating my 80th birthday by touring a new solo show to theatres I know well and a few that I don’t. The show starts with […]

‘A Good Dream, Like A Good Play, Should Not Be Easily Forgotten’: Fun And Wisdom Towards The End Of June: What Has Shakespeare To Teach Us Now?

Featured Image: Robyn Kerr and Amber Chardae Robinson in California Shakespeare Theater’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Photo: Courtesy Cal Shakes In the California Shakespeare company, Cal Shakes recent production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, they imagined the faeries as wise, ancient creatures beyond our normal conventions and full of clownish possibilities. In A Midsummer Night’s […]

A Fantastically Magick Conjuring of Play, Consumption, Consuming And Making: How Artists Are Acting On The Things We Can’t Express Just Now…(Thanks To NCAD And The Irish Times!)

Above: detail of Margaret Thatcher’s influence on the landscape in Lee Hamill’s NCAD show 2019 Dublin’s National College of Art and Design was established in 1746 in St George’s Lane Dublin and relocated to the historic Liberties in 1980: (the ‘liberties’ came out of feudal social organisation where certain privileges and entitlements to regulate trade and […]

Empire Windrush 1930-1954: Floella Benjamin: Save This Environmentally Wounded, Materialistic And Socially Unbalanced World From Destruction, For The Sake Of Our Children..

It’s all about the supply chain of things, knowing about the whys, hows, wherefores of the world and being able to take action, as people, as makers, as citizens. Overcoming the shock and cruelty of slaveries and war must be through understanding more about the collision of elite power with the processes of social movement […]