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What to do when morality strikes like lightning?—Some Løgstrupian inspired thoughts on how we might deal with the moralizing that has followed the Brexit referendum and the election of Trump

Scattering beautiful, jubilant grains of sand on the slippery slope and in the cogs of the (normalization) machine

What Lord Bullock taught me about drawing a line when encountering fascism and neo-Nazism and a link to a thread by David Roberts

An address for the end of Refugee Week 2018—“When the law of the strong, and of natural selection, took the place of the word of love, it became apparent that giving up the Bible is not always enlightened: Nero’s torches can burn all the brighter for it.”—Ernst Bloch (1885-1977)

"Context is everything"—something increasingly out of sight and out of mind

Reading and walking "Raddon Top" whilst Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un talk up the possibility of nuclear war

On losing one's ball—a liberal religious meditation on the inauguration of Donald Trump and Democracy

Some words of Max Picard relevant to our own times . . .