At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

Category: Justice

• Alienation Anxiety Authority Capitalism Credit Debt Economics Finance Government Ideology Information Justice Money Philosophy Political Economy Politics Technology

  

  PIG IRON 1: How Money Works

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.

  April 21, 2026
• Alienation Anxiety Authority Capitalism Economics Finance Government Ideology Information Justice Philosophy Political Economy Politics Technology

  

  PIG IRON 0: What This Is

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.

  April 21, 2026
• Climate Ecology Economics Education Environment Finance Government Justice Politics Technology

  

  The Atmosphere Keeps Score

  Do you get wound up by those who would reject the imperative for us to transition to a clean energy world? Who see the short term costs and sacrifices as more damaging than the long term catastrophic impacts? Here’s some arguments to help.

  April 19, 2026
• Class Economics Finance Justice Politics Power

  

  Listen to Me

  Just before I set off. I apologise for this. I get wound up by the start of the world. So I needed to get this off my chest. Feel free to ignore. I know I would if this was put in front of me. A Manifesto for Dignity, Democracy and…

  April 17, 2026
• Culture Feminism Georgian History Justice London Patriarchy Suffolk Theatre

  The Welkin at the National Theatre review ****

  The Welkin National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th February 2020 Rural Suffolk. 1759. A court case. There was only ever going to be one companion for the Tourist’s visit to see The Welkin. Step forward MS. A Tractor Boy by upbringing, if not birth, and an expert on all things legal and…

  April 23, 2020
• Culture Justice London Morality Power Sexuality Shakespeare Theatre Vienna

  Measure for Measure at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  Measure for Measure Barbican Theatre, 8th January 2020 I like Measure for Measure. I find the weird cocktail of morality play and satirical “comedy” fascinating. No one comes out of it well, not even the ostensibly virtuous Isabella who goes into bat to save brother Claudio from death, but is…

  February 25, 2020
• Crime Culture Justice London Russia Theatre Truth

  A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic review *****

  A Very Expensive Poison Old Vic Theatre, 9th September 2019 Lucy Prebble wrote The Effect, ENRON and The Sugar Syndrome all of which were rightly lauded. She is currently one of the writers on Succession the best thing on the telly in this, or any other, year. And Guardian journalist…

  October 13, 2019
• art Biography Culture Exhibition Feminism History Justice London Mew York Painting Performance Power Race Textiles USA

  Faith Ringgold at the Serpentine Galleries review ****

  Faith Ringgold Serpentine Galleries, 22nd August 2019 Once again it has taken the Tourist way too long to gather his thoughts on something he has seen. Which means this snappy retrospective of the work of Africa- American artist has now finished. Sorry. It was Very Good. I guess that doesn’t…

  October 7, 2019
• Culture Fiction Justice Literature London Morality Mortality Opera Sea

  Billy Budd at the Royal Opera House review ****

  Billy Budd Royal Opera House, 7th May 2019 The corruption of innocence, the struggle of good vs evil, Christ-like redemption and Pilate-like equivocation, the conflict between natural and legal justice, the outsider’s struggle for acceptance, repressed, scopophiliac, homosexual desire, the rational, scientific world contrasted with the mythic poetry of the…

  May 20, 2019