Global English is the New Standard English By Farhad Desai In Toronto. My students came from all over […]
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Not so fast! By Thomas Levene The City of London is the goose that laid the golden egg. […]
We want a church that’s on the side of the poor and the persecuted. By Matthew Taylor Excitingly, […]
The Cadences of Grand Master Nakazato By Dave Blazer After three and a half years of preparation for […]
Science and technology are only the means to an end, and that end is art. By Phil Hall […]
Soft words over cigars and port By Stephen Hoare Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS, ‘the Iron […]
In defence of liberalism By Frank Hardee If you think about it, socialism relies heavily on defeasability. In […]
Let the right ones in! By Phil Hall How many Palestinians have been given asylum in the UK? […]
TV producers invite us all to dream about cooking for the upper class. By Phil Hall How many […]
Despite their serious flaws, in the UK the police still provide an essential public service By Phil Hall […]
One must be brave in the search for truth and not bow to authority; bow only to reasoned […]
… and Twitter and Facebook are ready to silence us. By Gordon Liddle Twitter is not your friend. […]
Ars Notoria in Royal Society of Literature March news Inbox Mar 9, 2021 Dear Phil, Please note the […]
In the summer of 2018, I was contemplating a thoughtful gift for my dear friend’s birthday. Peter is a […]
A bad native speaker teacher sees the British as we and the students as they, as ‘Johnny foreigner’. […]
Bitcoin offers financial freedom and independence. By Thomas Levene If Bitcoin, is such a groundbreaking technology, why has […]
A 50 year journey through oriental philosophy and Karate By Dave Blazer I don’t really remember when the […]
Onen hag Oll, oll adro (One and all, all around) By Phili Mills Phili Mills argues that the […]
By Gordon Liddle My Grandfather’s nickname was The Gallower (pit pony). First day down the pit at 14, […]
Ars Notoria is proud to present a taster podcast of the powerful, partly autobiographical, trilogy of novels by […]
Dale T McKinley (For ARS NOTORIA) A prefacing note: On 31st January it will have been exactly 13 […]
Socialists need to reconnect with religion By Philip Hall I’ve recently decided to become a Quaker. I went […]
What is the difference between being a Welsh nationalist who wants fewer English and an English nationalist? By […]
By Philip Hall + It was the Albanian maid, Meera who discovered it. ‘There is an animal in […]
What is it that pulls us back from the solipsistic abyss of gamesmanship in life? By Neil Newman […]
There will be no business as usual in a Promethean Year By Adam Likley Firstly, let me wish […]
Christmas in Mexico is stuffed full of family, tradition and spirit. My three children bathed and clean in […]
Certainties trap us in the past with what has been, under the assumption that the future will be […]
The rich live in another Britain, a magical country, a Narnia, a Middle Earth, and they sneer at […]
James Tweedie, former International Editor of the Morning Star, argues strongly for a merry Brexit By James Tweedie […]
Chileans are trying to awaken from a nightmare, which has been recurring for decades and retains its vivid […]
England is, as far as colours go, fairly subdued and uniform. Mexico is the opposite By Simon Brewster […]
I was very curious to hear the opinions of former US army people working in the Middle East […]
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By Bryan Greetham. We are busy producing a generation of the most sophisticated recyclers of received opinion In […]
In the spirit of Mayakovsky The World is Sick of Dreaming Sometimes I wish my bed were as […]
By Phil Hall In order to be healthy and thin you need to eat fresh food, much of […]
By Phil Hall Venice is one of the greatest sea cities. In the 5th century the Venetians rescued […]
Is New Labour’s dystopian surveillance society back on the cards again?
After I was released from jail, but house arrested and banned, I was able to get one of […]
If capitalism really gets hold of software that can manipulate human behaviour, then game over. By Phil Hall […]
Keir Starmer has now alienated the best and the most idealistic people in the Labour Party By Phil […]
A 2020 Vision for South Africa A car arrived at Tony Hall’s funeral in 2008 with Aggie Msimang. […]
We are alive in amazing times, and 2020 is a significant year, as significant as 1968 was in […]
Will Biden get in? By Stephanie Urdang Dear Phil, I haven’t forgotten about your request to write something […]
We need to be better people By Pete Field Would you torture your own children? Would you destroy […]
How we kill and never think about it By Pete Field In the mid-sixties driving in the countryside […]
At Kit’s Coty the Ancestors Spoke. They said: ‘We all belong’. By Phil Hall Well, 2007 was a […]
By Phil Hall Someone from the countryside was selling a young bush-baby in a corner of Dar-es-Salaam market. Mom was […]
Anyone paying attention? By Dale T. McKinley Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, much of world’s public […]
Yves Montand in Nairobi in 1966 By Tony Hall On the face of it it may seem strange […]
When poets are publishers, other poets forget to notice them as poets. Thus, Todd Swift has remained a hidden diamond. So, to highlight his work, it delights us at Ars Notoria to bring his poem to you this month. It plays at many levels concealing the harshness directed elsewhere from the poem’s apparent impression!
We feel desolate at the squandering of such an enormous opportunity By Phil Hall After the failure of […]
‘we have meandered through grief, loss, and trauma at the complete loss of our home‘ – Libby Patterson […]
By Felipe Elvira Imagine waking up in Uruapan. Many thousands of Uruapenses who have crossed the border over […]
By Rob Hyde On the face of it, given how my country-hopping life in Europe turned out, I […]
You can live a rich and full life – if you take collective action By Phil Hall When […]
More Glamorous than Che: Make a Film about the life of Angela Davis By Phil Hall It’s fascinating […]
By Phil Hall On the 22nd of April 1992. There were 10 petrol-gas explosions in northern Guadalajara, killing […]
By Connie Hall Arthur Lewis Hall was a fellow of the Royal Society, a winner of the Murchison Medal […]
K, a superhero, finds working as an ESL teacher tough… By James Royce Mcguire It’s wacked. Here he […]
It was 1961, I was a reporter on the main SA daily newspaper The Star. The African National Congress had […]
In July we began the month with a powerful argument against Rebecca Long-Bailey’s dismissal by Richard House published […]
By Neil Newman One of the most striking facets of the secular religion Marxism is the almost complete […]
Language learning is ontological By Philip Hall For more than 30 years I have been teaching people how […]
By Bryan Greetham In this period of COVID-19 it is essential that we understand risk and to do […]
On and off, for over thirty years, Andy Hall has aimed his camera at The City of London […]
The longing for a homeland is legitimate and the result of two millennia of European persecution. By […]
By Keith Woodhouse The night was over And the sea curds crackled And bent, crisply, in the deadening […]
By Adam Lickley 2017 did not end well for me. I was ‘let go’ from my job, my […]
My march through the relative silence of nine years Has brought me to a small house With a […]
By Adam Lickley So you fancy being a dancer, huh? And who doesn’t want to be paid to […]
By Phil Hall The first guided client to be ushered up the slopes of Chomolungma-Sagarmatha by Sherpa Tenzing […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present episode 10 of Dan Pearce’s groundbreaking graphic novel, Depression.
Selected by Dominic Tweedie from: Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, Interviews, 1918-1974 Paul Robeson was a superstar in […]
Modern conspiracy theory and the appeal of fascism and racism for the working class By Bryan Greetham In […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the ninth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce
National Socialism offered the lower middle class a way of side-stepping the choice between liberalism or socialism. It […]
The moment has come for the soft left to develop a backbone and make a stand against reactionary […]
We grew up up understanding that nature is wild and and dangerous. By Phil Hall In a film […]
Global warming is real, but it is not an excuse for misanthropes to voice their hatred of humanity. […]
A Freedom Charter for Great Britain? If we held a constitutional assembly, all the progressive forces in British […]
Welcome to the monthly editorial and welcome to Ars Notoria. Strangely enough, the editorial for June 2020 will […]
Ars Notoria is pleased to present the eighth episode in the comic series, Depression, by Dan Pearce
Socialists and capitalists together have ruined the planet. by Pete Field Even though climate scientists tell us we […]