Graham Cunningham

We in the West have been schooled into an expectation that there is a political solution to everything. There isn’t and the expectation can lead people – especially the most politically engaged kind – down rabbit holes. One of them is an excessive fixation on someone to blame for our discontents.…

“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality” George Orwell

Are conservatism and capitalism falling out of love?

This is the fourth and final part of The Madness of Intelligentsias; Graham’s essay on the philosophical hinterland of 21st century Liberalism, and argues that there have in fact been two profound cultural shape-shifts on what one might term the masculine/feminine axis in Western society....ones…

This is Part 3 of my Madness of Intelligentsias long essay... an exploration of the philosophical hinterland of 21st century Western Liberalism. “Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, and learn, too late......Do not go gentle into that good night.” Dylan Thomas

SOCIAL JUSTICE?.....IT’S ALL RELATIVE

LOSING OUR RELIGION....AND FINDING ANOTHER ONE Equality, I spoke the word as if a wedding vow. Ah but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. (My Back Pages Bob Dylan)

An essay on the adverse effects of the leak of lunatic theories from academic ivory towers into the modern mind.

Graham Cunningham looks into the merits and demerits of life in the 21st century, and in particular how much we value freedom.