Welcome to the SPA Resources and Blog page. Here we have blogs, vlogs, links, statements, articles and ideas building up. Let us know what you need more of (or less of!).
The objective of SPA is to get to a healthy, happy society with equal opportunities for all. Much to do then! Most requests for information and understanding are currently around the social philosophy of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ or ‘DEIB’ (etc), where we critique both poles of recent arguments and end up as what we call ‘Radical Moderates’!
We write from a perspective informed by many things including literacy in critical thinking, liberal (enlightenment/objective) and critical (post-modern/subjective) approaches, economics, statistics and religious traditions. We hope you find it helpful. Contact us with any question or need.
Subscribe to Social Philosophy Analysis on Substack – Making sense of what’s happening
Our grandparents risked and died for us. Now it is our time to stand as moderates against totalitarianism of both left and right. “We will remember them…” An incredible and poignant piece of writing and delivery in Blackadder Goes Forth (below). My infinite thanks to those, like my grandad and grandma (and
I see a lot of misuse of statistics, some deliberately dishonest, on all sides of arguments. As a Statistics graduate I think this should be a criminal offence, of course! In particular now, we need fair and accurate narratives to avoid encouraging polarisation within society and within organisations’ working populations.
My favourite quote on simplism Steven R. Covey said (and he probably got it from someone else) a brilliant quote, “I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; but I would give my right arm for the simplicity of the other side of complexity”.
It’s a difficult area to address. But important. Here’s a Top 10 for organisation leaders to work on before they even start. On LinkedIn I was asked…How can businesses and colleagues be effective allies to Black employees year-round? hashtag#BlackHistoryMonth hashtag#LinkedInNewsUK I get the intention. And I get the desired outcome of us
People are starting to ask if it’s possible for UK society to become totalitarian. They’re behind the curve – it’s started. Totalitarianism has many names – authoritarianism, Marxism/Fascism, the Controller society, etc. At least two billion people in the 20th century lived under totalitarian regimes – regimes where the individual’s
The philosopher Friedrich Nietszche wasn’t religious, but had this part right I have a religious faith. I wasn’t born with it, I’m a convert. It became clearer and clearer over time to me that God exists, loves me, and we are all God’s loved children on a path of potential.
Reform doesn’t have it all wrong, or all right – here are two shifts needed The UK Reform Party – like them or loathe them – gained 4m votes (14.3%) in the 2024 UK General Election. They haven’t got it all wrong, or all right. What they have right is
We must reject totalitarianism from both Right and Left Clear writing from Matt Goodwin and Luke Conway. If we are to avoid totalitarianism – an eternal vigilance – we must notice it emerging in both Left and Right. For me, the only way to tackle real racism, sexism etc, and
Polarisation involves you falling for: Subscribe to Social Philosophy Analysis – Substack
Democracy in the UK is at a low and needs saving. It’s a difficult time politically in the UK. Democracy is at a low and set to get lower. The Conservatives deserved to lose the last election; Labour didn’t have much support to win it. Labour won only 20% of
An example from today – keep thinking, all! So Esheru Kwaku and and Isobel Oakeshott disagree today. No surprise. But see the arguments… Isobel: “Met Police Federation Chair Rick Prior appears to have been SUSPENDED for telling the truth on @TalkTV about how officers fear false accusations of racism. This
How so-called ‘trickle-down theory’, and criticisms of it, are invented and wrongly used to justify tax rate rises and attack market-oriented thinking – some unusual facts and empirical results. People fall for seductive rhetoric so easily. Grabbing the moralism of a partial story without thinking through the whole story, or
Let’s help you elicit some of your social philosophy, looking at this dimension… What is worse, racism or Marxism? And why do I ask? Can we have neither? Does Marxism remove racism? Does anti-Marxism (default freedom of the individual over the State subject to others having the same rights; private
I am old enough and lucky(?) enough to have spent time (three times actually) behind the Iron Curtain of Soviet Eastern Europe. Ten years before it fell. It was imposed by pro-State actors and sold on the basis of fairness and compassion. Sound familiar? Marxism would rid society of selfishness,
Fascinating to see the clarity from 2024’s ex-Conservative voters (as they see it) on most of the international and ‘anti-West’ issues (eg mass immigration and some DEI policies etc), but not on Climate or Tax. I was initially surprised, but then (given my stats background) we are talking about ex-Con
