November 22nd 2025 Authoritarians do not come to power in stable times Authoritarians do not come to power in stable times Authoritarians are the ultimate predators. They seek the fear of people diminished by inequality, seizing it and weaponising it for their gain. They need division. They deliberately stir hate. This is their happy place. Controlling. Manipulating. Dominating. Cruel. Opening the unreconciled wound of people who believe their lives are diminished by the other – the...

November 20th 2025 Living a charmed life Living a charmed life I was speaking to someone recently who said they lived a charmed life. Yet they were speaking to me about their work, which they had come to resent. At work, they were taken for granted, exploited, rarely acknowledged and paid very well. As if being paid well gives permission to treat people badly. You get paid to be a prostitute, and sometimes you might get paid well, but you are still being fu**cked. I challenged the charmed...

November 19th 2025 Willful resistance Wilful resistance Both of my parents are alive, one is 92 years old and remarried at 80, the other is 88, lives independently and drives. I understand resistance to technology. I am a fan of the Luddite movement, as we must be able to draw the line between real and digital. I am an advocate for cash. But wilful resistance that costs you and others is stupidity. Technology has always been a tension in human affairs. The use of weapons, fire, hammers. The...