From Panic Moon , July 2011.  Edited, and with new material in a seprate coda. This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My onl...

Kant's categorical imperative is an expression of the bourgeois liberal ideas of the 18th century, expressed as morality.  It is progres...

From the October 2011 issue of Panic Moon .  As ever, lightly edited and titivated... 'cos I just can't help tinkering. When Do...

This is a slightly edited and expanded version of something originally published in the April 2011 issue of Panic Moon.   Many thanks to Ol...

This article - from Rachel Shabi in The Guardian - is really great.  It's about the Islamophobia encoded in the recent spate of much-l...

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Superb. As an historian of...

I'm sometimes rather startled to realise just how much Doctor Who I've missed. I mean, chronologially, the last actual TV episode...