Disciplines and controls can have value, but we must be wary of not trusting ourselves too little.
An aphorism
Tools do no work - only human beings do the work
Chuang Tze on the value of diversity
Do we seek power through the agency of the powerful?
Thoughts on the importance of humility in knowledge
I outline my early work on basic income.
Chesterton is the great advocate for the road to social justice less travelled
We struggle to welcome gifts - unless we see everything as a gift.
Inspiration from Steve Jobs.
Christianity and History.
A fable from Rabbi Nachman.
Inspiration from Hannah Arendt.
Aeschylus on justice.
The use of the term 'disabled' is complex and disputed.
Much of society is organised on the principle that we should leave decisions in the hands of those who are most competent to make them.
A quote from Beth Mount the inventor of person-centred planning.
It seems that society doesn't always want to take its medicine.
Modern economic and social theory has failed to capture this important dimension of citizenship.
At the foundation of the welfare state it was clear that Beveridge was under the same pressure to 'patch' as we too have faced ever since he designed it.
A quote from the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’.
Can we make comparisons today?
With thanks to John O'Brien for sharing this poem.
Aristotle feared that democracy might become the rule of the mob, the demos. He saw their short-sighted, wilfulness as a threat to good order.