Innocents Will Pay the Price for Your Self-Indulgence — How does perspective shape our reality? What would be their perspective if babies could articulate, with knowledge of the state of the world, and what their future is likely to be, given the current trajectory? Yes I am one of those ‘weird’ women who chose not to have children. How…

Celebrating a self-absorbed parasite’s coronation paid for by our taxes while many of us struggle between heating our homes or eating — I would normally applaud an immigrant and their descendants doing well after migrating to another country. This is especially so if they didn’t speak the native language and had to get used to the different customs and ways of the locals. But in the case of the German family who…

If you must insist on being a refugee silly, be a Ukrainian one, ok? — Who does not love the ethereal voice of the Irish singer Sinead O’ Connor, singing ‘Nothing Compares to U’? It’s one of my favourite songs, but the words are a bit boring so I thought I should update them to reflect a present-day love affair. It’s been 433 days…

Or do you shut down the possibility of understanding, to preserve your egotistical certainties? — Some responses to an article I wrote recently led me to ask: Why do we read? Why do we meet new people? Why do we engage in conversations with others, beyond the mundane or the transactional? Is it just to confirm what we already believe? Or are we willing to…

Fascinating - thank you for sharing. Also, so important to counter the myth that Western psychology was the first to conduct ways to assess intelligence.

That is so interesting! You make connections that very few do - as if current arrangements for money/labour/ valuing people's time /skills are something God-given, rather than the crating of generations of elites, mostly, using the threat of force and monopolistic power over essentials such as food. I noticed living in Bulgaria that there were many fruit trees I public spaces... not so in Englands's green and unpleasant land, which the thugs, ho called themselves 'aristocrats' took over, fenced off, and forced village folk to slave down mines and in factories for a pittance, while their food was sold in shops controlled by the factory owners!

Today I took 3 seconds to block someone on Medium — Having a rule in place, saves a lot of time and mental energy. After feeling repeatedly annoyed by those on Medium who have never written one article or poem themselves, yet who leave a one clap (slap) on something I have pored over and composed with the love of a…

Yes, I agree, sadly you are absolutely right - accents and nationality is also used to judge people's acceptability and stereotypes are applied for sure... Awful to experience king treated as a thief/prostitute... and then, the prejudice against Polish people affected your choice of rental apartment too... I think the point I was making in my article still stands - ie, that people of colour cannot mute their accent/ they re visibly different and for racists, that is central to their hate filled attacks ...

Highly recommend reading this wonderfully insightful article as it is so relevant at any approaching milestone or turning point in life.