This is a long form version of the post “We are all pissed off” TLDR: The political future depends less on the existence of grievance than on who succeeds in converting it into collective agency, and what kind of ‘we’ they construct? © 2026 Lance Stephen Goodman. All rights reserved. Abstract This paper examines howContinue reading “The Race for Collective Agency: Social Fracture, Political Mobilisation and Ecological Constraint”
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We are all Pissed Off. Now What?
The Race for ‘Collective Agency’ TLDR: The political future depends less on the existence of grievance than on who succeeds in converting it into collective agency. There seems to be no shortage of anger. We see it on social media, on the telly, on the roads. Many people are angry about housing, immigration, wagesContinue reading “We are all Pissed Off. Now What?”
The Common Sense Swindle
The Common Sense Swindle: Inside Britain’s Culture-War Playbook “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” — W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming When Farage talks, a rectum is relieved of its wind. His words are of the fragrance of a freshly laid turd. And yet, many consider his pronouncementsContinue reading “The Common Sense Swindle”
Have I got news for you
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-k3nxw-13bb31c An unrecognised national treasure is our local papers. They tell really local news which you will not hear anywhere else. In most editions, you will find something to raise an eyebrow or to make you scratch your head at the parochialisms therein. Podcast can be found here
Have I got News for You
‘Tractor on Fire at Relubbus’. A Russian fighter jet engaged a US drone over the Black Sea risking an escalation of the war. Australia, the UK and the US agreed to base nuclear submarines in the South Pacific, threatening an escalation of China’s continued, perceived and historical, humiliation at the hands of Western powers. BorisContinue reading “Have I got News for You”
Dividend?
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-37vmk-13b671b When is a dividend not a dividend? Perhaps when it is smashing your nose into a bloody pulp with a cast iron frying pan in an orgy of rhinoplastic destruction and then convincing yourself that you are more handsome because the prominent pustule sitting on your nostril, threatening to burst into a volcanic eruptionContinue reading “Dividend?”
Parking Apps
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3y7xh-13b08c8 We live in a digital age. We all know that. What we also often ignore is that it was designed by folks in a faraway land in California who have no idea that Redruth exists. Therefore, they make assumptions in developing the apps we use. Pity.
Cats!
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2iead-13af2b8 We human beings have an ambivalent relationship with animals. We love them in so many ways. Dogs are special, but so are cats. In Saudi Arabia cats also have a spiritual meaning to them.
Apps
“Payment declined, please contact your card issuer”. There are quite a few messages that bring you information you did not want to know, while also increasing your frustration point to ‘nose bleed, migraine inducing, kick a cat (any cat)’ level. This payment declined message is just one of the many. It’s right up there withContinue reading “Apps”
Ole Moonbeam
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fpthx-139f48f I was sitting in the snug of a 16th-century pub, pint and pasty, listening to old men putting the world right. Perfect for lunchtime.
Lance Goodman 