Friends & Resources

Qigong for Wellbeing
Yasmin Shah, my wife, is an accomplished and dedicated QiGong and meditation teacher.

Bruce Levine
Bruce Levine is a radical psychologist with important things to say about mental health and the societal causes of distress

Roots of Empathy
Teaching empathy to children and adults.

38 degrees
A very effective UK online campaigning organisation.

Liberty
An essential organisation to protect civil liberties and human rights.

opendemocracy
A real democratic forum for the UK and the World

dontspyonus
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin

The Conversation
Academics writing in plain English about the issues of the day

whitehelmets
These people are working in Syria to rescue and help the victims of bombing and shelling.

“When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the
lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

Walt Whitman