Finding Common Ground
We are looking for a language of emotional truth to bring people together. We hope to find shared human values, that are not limited by ideology or creed.
With your help on our blog, we will explore these values. We can use them to work towards peace and understanding across cultures and between nations.
We will focus on the arts to locate truth in our troubled world. Together we will help to create a safer, more sustainable future.
Just Art
We seek emotional truth, shaped with freshness and imagination. Art that moves, challenges, and reveals.
Just Politics
We seek truth, honesty, and practical ideas — from left or right, beyond party lines, rejecting disinformation.
Just Aware
We seek moral insight grounded in human self-awareness, not ego, profit, or dogma — rooted in empathy and kindness.
Principles
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Inspired by the poet John Keats, we use classical images to recall the high civilisation of some indigenous, polytheist societies in the past.
Who will win the British Labour Party’s battle of ideas?
I have been impressed by this post by Paul Mason on Substack
https://substack.com/home/post/p-198255093
He focuses on the need for the Labour leadership hopefuls to have a deeper economic plan to provide enough money to maintain decent public services and to provide hope for working class voters. This won’t be achieved simply by renationalising water companies and the railways, or even by building more council housing.
He point to issues like the financialisation of capitalism and its enormous debt burden. The result is that “Financial, technological and commercial monopolies (think Blackrock, Palantir and Amazon) have near-unlimited power to extract rent from the worker, the consumer and the entrepreneur alike.”
There is also the rising cost of government borrowing, the difficulty of collecting taxes from multinational companies and the very rich, and the threats to our democracy from the first past the post system and the influence of foreign money and dark social media supporting right wing populism.
The taboo subject of a wealth tax needs to be broached.
We need to admit that the time is running out for our “Captain Sensible” prime minister. He lacks the empathetic communication skills. But whoever replaces him needs to have a good toolkit of ideas – and the passion to argue for them against the onslaught from our right wing media. The new leader will need the brains and a bit of the humour and sang froid of Harold Wilson back in the day.