These pages are primarily a directory of my YouTube videos. As this side of my work has expanded a lot of recent years – in particular, as I return to making the music for my videos and other productions – these pages have been expanded to reflect the broader nature of this content; including pages for the new musical soundtracks I am creating for videos.
The videos on the channel seek to examine the troublesome and often difficult meanings behind today’s news and events rather than simply repeating the ‘conventional wisdom’ of the mass/social media… be that videos relating hard research on current events, or more esoteric visual & musical explorations of the world around us.
Recent videos & music tracks:
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/17, 5th June 2023:
Some books get a ‘reputation’ as a result of what people believe they say rather than on a detailed reading of the text. Just a word in the title – for example, ‘collapse’ – can be enough to invalidate their content without any appreciation of what they actually say.
As the Government threatens to raise the retirement age, again!, why is there no discussion about ‘Multidimensional Poverty’? Traditional stereotypes about poverty, based within the establishment's four-hundred year-old principle of, ‘the deserving and undeserving poor’, cannot encompass these complex relationships. Therein lies a deeper truth.
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, sixteen women from Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire were made an example of by a system of power that sought to resist inevitable change. What does it tell us about Britain today?
For some months the ‘specialist’ media have been tracking a major structural change in the world’s economy brought-on by the Ukraine War: Not the well-publicised crisis of food or energy prices; but of who controls the world’s financial payments system, and its use to enforce Western sanctions.
Though, ‘Overshoot’, is ostensibly a book about biophysical limits, the theme that runs through it is about the human propensity for denying obvious facts: Our ability to deceive not only others, but more importantly, ourselves.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/17, 5th June 2023:
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/16, 29th May 2023:
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/15, 21st May 2023:
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/14, 17th May 2023:
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/13, 8th May 2023: