Another thing I find incredibly dubious about the British monarchy… Charles III is technically ‘Head of the English Church.’ I mostly approve of Charles’ humanitarian values and character, generally, at least as it has developed in his maturity, and I totally approve of his passions for the environment, animals and…

I clearly remember the numinous feelings surrounding the Queen during my childhood in Wirral, on the Welsh border, on the banks of the River Dee. …

Do you remember what you were doing on 9/11, when you heard the news about the World Trade Centre attack? I was just roaming around my home in Victoria, getting morning coffee, calling my friend Christina, starting to chat, when she said, “Oh, You don’t know.” When I asked her…

The idea that supports monarchies is that certain types of blood, ‘royal blood,’ is better than and superior to common, ordinary blood. Which is, of course, absurd. As the fallacy and folly of this kind of supremacist thinking comes more to bear in society, intellectual history and culture, the notion…

Question: How can adult women be classified as ‘orphans’ and placed in a ‘social education’ incarceration centre against their will–an…

“Today’s Republican Party is the most nihilistic and dangerous political force I’ve ever seen.” (Michael Vincent Hayden, retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.) Extremely strong words, by an…