An article written for The Philosophy Foundation in 2021 following the 2021 HowTheLightGetsIn Philosophy festival In dealing with observable data science puts less importance on the first-person kind of thinking undertaken by philosophers, so it is interesting how central scientific thought was to HowTheLightGetsIn as a festival of philosophy. Importantly, it was interest in the relevance of … Continue reading HOWTHELIGHTGETSIN: SYNTHESISING PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE →

I share my experience at HowTheLightsGetsIn Festival London 2021, the world's leading festival of ideas and music hosted by IAI tv.

I’ve been made rather uncomfortable recently by the way in which white middle class people have been talking about BLM and poverty – ignoring the ‘all lives matter’ crowd there has definitely been a significant amount of white middle class people in support of BLM acting as if racism is created and maintained by the … Continue reading Why I support Black Lives Matter →

I don't sit on the margins or the pillars of society. I sit ever present as an always already oncoming force. My very existence is seen as a liberation that none other can participate in, I am only my justification of my rights, my being, my security. We have won the moral argument, and no … Continue reading Ruminations on 21st Century Homosexuality →

Amidst MPs leaving the Labour under the guise of issues with bullying, extremism and antisemitism you would be forgiven for assuming the Labour party had turned into the new “nasty party” reminiscent of a Thatcherite Conservative party who’s anti-Semitic cabinet atmosphere lead to numerous resignation from Jewish members with Minister Alan Clark literally describing himself … Continue reading It isn’t the “hard-left” that are the bullies of the Labour Party →

Written in November 2018, full text cited below "I’d like to start with the caveat that I don’t know whether opinion journalism is as important as news reporting. In order to have some kind of value, I guess this kind of journalism has to be prescriptive: it has to imply a certain course of action … Continue reading Advocating for an “Uncivil” Politics →

An Article I wrote back in 2017 following the allegations against Kevin Spacey, full text cited below "After the recent sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey and his subsequent coming out I had initially thought that this might shed light on the issue of sexual assault within queer spaces. But instead I saw something else; … Continue reading Queer Too: Kevin Spacey and Normalising Sexual Assualt within Queer Culture →

Copenhagen is a beautiful city, a calm city. It almost has the ere of how movies seemed to think the future would be in the 70s, with slow moving monorails surrounded by grassy expanses. South East London is not calm, everyone is almost screaming at you trying to grab some kind of duality of both … Continue reading Returning Home →