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Will Andy Burnham, who built his political career on justice and accountability after Hillsborough, deny the same to victims of state abuse?

On 16 July, less than 48 hours after the much celebrated ‘Hillsborough Law’ cleared the Commons, the Home Office made the shock announcement of a new public consultation into the future of the Undercover Policing I...

What is Consciousness?

Problems, Traditions, and the Case for a Dialogical View

So what is consciousness? I begin by separating the many different things the word can mean, and then set the main t...

Flow
The crowd
Crowd on a path
Not different from a river

A flow
Where any stop of an individual is a disturbance
When any change in direction
Is an anomaly, the cause of a wave

The crowd
Where the direction is confirmed
Suggested
Forced

Crowd
Where a man with an idea of peace
Terrorises a group he cal...

A Conversation with Mark Boswell, Amsterdam May 2024
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[Mark Boswell, found footage filmmaker, & I talked in an electric fog of dopamine & memory – Paris, NY, Amsterdam, South Beach, Osnabrück, Heidelberg … a list of sorts]:

We discussed...

At the turn of the previous century

when both my grandfathers were slowly
getting the hang of walking, toddling, one in ten
of the adult population were employed as domestic
servants. Fewer than this in Hyde, because
we didn’t have the houses, the basement quarters

but it’s an indication of the reality that existed
when the world reac...