Whitstable Views

16/09/2025

Make friends with your unconscious. || Christopher James Stone

13/09/2025

The Banshees of Inisherin and the trickster myth. || Christopher James Stone

02/09/2025

Love is like starlight: a billion-year old message from the core of time and space.

The science of doubt. || Christopher James Stone

31/08/2025

Here's a piece I wrote 11 years ago, about the privatisation of the Royal Mail, under the pseudonym Roy Mayall. Much of it still holds true:

Roy Mayall: Royal Mail's management don't regard you as customers but recipients, simply a way to deliver returns to their investors

28/08/2025

All terrorist groups need to be disbanded. That includes the IDF

Palestine will be free. || Christopher James Stone

24/08/2025

Whitstable Umbrella Centre 13 September 2025

22/08/2025

In 1974 China was ...a very poor country. The standard of living for the vast majority was rudimentary. Housing was basic. Life was simple. Since then everyone in China has got wealthier. There have been enormous gains

A review of The Making of a Marxist Philosopher by Sean Sayers. || Christopher James Stone

16/08/2025

On Saturday 9 August 2025 we joined one of three Big Rides for Palestine taking place in London.

Public opinion has never been so strongly in favour of Palestine solidarity.

16/08/2025

Just heard that an old friend, Paul Fryday, has died. He was way too young, in his early 60s I guess, though a raging alkie, so that probably explains it. Anyway, here's an account of a journey I took with him many moons ago, along the Pilgrim's Way. He also features heavily in my book, Fierce Dancing, which is about to be republished this year:

We were on the Pilgrim’s Way: the ancient pilgrimage route hemming the line of the North Downs through Kent and West Sussex, a long, wavering ribbon of battered tarmac and chalky track that stretches out between the great Cathedral cities of Canterbury and Wi******er; and beyond, from Dover to Sto...

11/08/2025

A New Day Festival 2025 will be the best yet