The politics of fear
It should now be obvious to anyone with even half a brain that we are not in fact facing a deadly global epidemic that threatens […]
General
Unauthorised feelings
It seems like a lifetime ago that I wrote the fictional work “47 Random Fragments of Unauthorised Hope and Despair”. It has been online since […]
Smash vitaphobia!
Human minds are all too often distracted and polluted by phobias, fears so entrenched and exaggerated that they take the form of outright hatred. These […]
Multiplication is division
We live in a society in which quantity is considered more important than quality. According to the prevailing wisdom, the more we collectively produce, the […]
Life is not for sale
“We are seeing the dehumanisation of the profession”, a striking French postal worker told me this week. Yolaine, who has been in the job for […]
Reporting on the Yellow Vests
Since the end of last year, I have been writing a number of reports on the Gilets Jaunes, the anti-capitalist protest movement which has taken […]
Organic radicalism
A new website has been set up presenting a very deep, holistic and revolutionary political ideology called “organic radicalism”. I certainly identify with this way […]
No Such Place as Asha – my new extremist novel!
No Such Place as Asha: An Extremist Novel has now been published and is available to buy online. Here’s the blurb: Beer-loving Brighton journalist Jon […]
Fighting for our lives: an authentic ideology of anti-capitalist resistance
The artificiality and abstraction of life under contemporary capitalism is dragging us further and further way from a real sense of being alive – in […]
Gilets Jaunes: unfiltered anti-capitalism
As part of my journalistic work with Shoal Collective, I have been speaking to some of the people involved in the Gilets Jaunes movement near […]