NessBookFest
I’ve been invited by the NBF team to read three minutes from my latest book, The Lawyer’s Dream on the 5th October at Waterstones. I feel honoured, and can’t wait.
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Finding a home for ‘The Lawyer’s Dream’ a book I began writing five years ago. Read an extract below.
Keep looking closer at the appearances of Nature and be honest with yourself, what do you see? What are the expressions within Nature telling you?
Profit-ism: the nightmare of todays daydreaming profiteers @Scottishleftrev. It’s time to re-imagine today’s economic-order.
Patrick Phillips examine the motivation of those that play and pray for profit.
Each year, thousands of books are published that demonstrate how profiteers make profits but never why. My forthcoming book, Ways of Expressing, aims to answer the questions: why are profiteers so insistent on the making of a profit, and what alternative economic-exchange is available to us now? Below are some extracts from it:
http://www.scottishleftreview.scot/profit-ism-the-nightmare-of-daydreamers/
The relationship between citizen and state has to change at local level. Read my article @TheCommonSpace
Patrick Phillips, writer and artist, argues that the concept of Local Authorities needs to be totally overhauled, including linguistically, so that the relationship between citizen and state is re-born
I HAVE written previously for CommonSpace about how my mother and I were treated at a time of crisis in our lives by the local authority. We were facing an illegal eviction and corruption of council tax payment from our landlord.
‘Twitter’ is a social void. It represents today’s economic-exchange: with a profit. Hence the social interrogation when using it. There is nothing social about today’s social media platforms. Most importantly when was “socialising” declared an act for publicity?
Becoming John Berger
I’ve always believed that drawings should be in constant circulation, around the globe, like what Max Raphael said about thoughts:
