Time
Maybe, no…., probably due to my dance with the devil in 2017 I’ve been in a reflective mood for much of the last three years. Furthermore, later this year I will turn 50 and this has got me thinking about the passage of time, how we perceive it and how that perception changes over the years and how some of those changes can creep up on you. A couple of years ago at a reception to celebrate our graduating Masters students I brought along a photo of my MSc classmates from the U
Why Did Generation X Become So Angry?
Born in 1970 I am slap bang in the middle of Generation X, no hint of an overlap with either the Baby Boomers or the Millennials. I’ve also spent the last four years living in the Pacific Northwest, Generation X’s cultural homeland; home to Grunge and Douglas Coupland, where Twin Peaks was set and where The X Files and Northern Exposure were filmed. Indeed, how stereotypical Gen X is this? Here I am in Seattle, My current reading is a Douglas Coupland book (Bit Rot), which is
What Now for Liberalism?
Liberalism is a loaded term; it means very different things to different people. It certainly means very different things on either side of the Atlantic. I am an old-fashioned liberal. Literally, I am an old-fashioned Liberal. I come from the European classical liberal tradition. My political hero is William Gladstone, closely followed by a trio of William Wilberforce, Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George. Wilberforce led the campaign to abolish the slave trade in the early
