This is the third in a series of essays on the importance of potential in the politics of care and economics of hope. The others
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Becoming
This post follows naturally from a previous one on potential. It may be useful to read that post first. But what is potential? It isn’t
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Three centuries of life and health – and the politics of care
The post that follows was written as a result of conversations between Jacqueline and me a couple of weeks ago, based on a hypothesis she
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Why do the media make us believe they are on the wrong side of the truth?
As Robert Reich has noted on his Substack overnight: Trump’s war with Iran is continuing. Today, Iran launched attack drones at Bahrain — which hosts
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Potential
For the background to this post, please read this companion piece. Imagine you are alone on a desert island. You have nothing. You have a
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Progress
I had a pain-free day yesterday. After the six previous days, that was blissful. That said, I am not pretending that the problem I have
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Enshittification
This video on enshittification from The Norwegian Council is brilliant: The term enshittification was created by Cory Doctorow to describe the process where online services and
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Questions we need to ask
I am shamelessly using material where I can find it right now – without apology, and this post is based on a comment by RobertJ,
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Nye Bevan would have been furious
I could not help but notice that Addenbrooke’s Hospital, as part of Cambridge University Hospitals, claims, all over the place, that the three pillars of
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