Changing Trains
April 6, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The divisions within society are distorted by an amalgam of selective fact and prejudicial myth
Author Archives for Geoffrey Heptonstall
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Geoffrey Heptonstall
A SENSE OF CHARACTER
March 4, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In a culture of bland conformity it is stimulating to find a challenge. It surely demands a response. To dismiss it out of hand would be to show no respect.
THEN AND, UNFORTUNATELY, NOW
February 14, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Our public duty is to demonstrate our lack of faith in the thoughtless and insensitive polity that erodes the social fabric as a matter of deliberate intention. Philistine and self-satisfied domesticity cannot be the aim of a thinking democracy in a creative culture
Taking Control
December 8, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The aim of populism is to remake the world as a life where nothing happens.
ON THE EVE AND AFTER THE WAR
November 11, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A poem by Geoffrey Heptonstall
A Citizen Of Everywhere
October 26, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts At the geographic centre of Europe, Berlin is a microcosm of European history.
The Hollow Centre
September 23, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It’s hard now to believe how things once were. Full-blooded socialism never found a secure place in the British experience, but through the Seventies we had something more than the piecemeal reform of social democracy.
No Problem
August 19, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The problem extends well beyond one particular question. For a long time now the world has been run on the presumption that all problems are easily soluble.
WE ARE ALL CITIZENS OF EVERYWHERE
July 6, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Migration is natural. Like many I can claim age-old ancestry of one place, yet equally there are those roots in distant places, and a history of migrations across seas and continents even in recent years
The Post
May 21, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Spielberg's film The Post is about events that are now history. Yet they remain so relevant.