Axiomata and Metanoia – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century

This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 63 June-August 2012 Axiomata and Metanoia (1) – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century        The Mood of the New Century Under the surface of all the turmoil of the new 21st century  has been the burgeoning hype surrounding “the 2012 phenomenon”: will the world end in 2012 because of the supposed predictions of the...
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Harry Patch and the Panther’s Claw

    27 July 2009: the UK government declares the first part of its delicately and ‘democratically titled’ Operation Panther’s Claw (the British bit of the US army ‘surge’ in Afghanistan) to have been a success. The BBC today said that the Foreign Secretary “has been setting out Britain’s diplomatic strategy” as if Foreign Secretary David...
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