Category: Columns
Geoff has written for publications as diverse as PC User and The Northern Star His weekly columns have been a source of humour and inspiration for tens of thousands of readers and his mailbox is always full.
Here you can find his more recent contributions.
JohnJames /14 January, 2017
The John James Newsletter 65 20 June 2015 – Provence Nations, like metal, shine only on the surface Antoine de Riverol Full text of Pope Francis on Climate Change http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/06/18/read-pope-franciss-full-document-on-climate-change/ US Catholics ready to follow Pope’s ‘marching orders’ on climate change http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/18/pope-encyclical-climate-change-catholics-us-response?CMP=ema_565 We are in the business of creating a miracle on earth An Inspiring Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /7 January, 2017
To subscribe or unsubscribe email John What the US government is doing in Syria is tantamount to a war of aggression, which, according to the Nuremberg Tribunal, is the worst possible crime a State can commit against another State Father Miguel D’Escoto People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /4 January, 2017
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science Hal Clement Twenty Photos: My Seven Months Living at Standing Rock These images show some of the defining moments of the past seven months — some that made it to mainstream Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /2 January, 2017
The final week of 2016 is an apt time to reflect on the role of religion. Fundamentalists fan the flames of religious hate from Aleppo to Ipswich. Borders snap shut, refugees languish in ghettos and First Nations people from West Papua and Western Australia to just West of the Mississippi at Standing Rock are tortured Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /2 January, 2017
You are in the Cage unscripted. Australia is on holiday. The Summer that Will Not End in our lifetimes has begun. It is hot. It is very hot. And the Endless Summer has just begun. As we huddle in the air conditioning, or wallow in the kid’s wading pool draping wet towels over ourselves to Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /22 December, 2016
India’s rapid move to a cashless society was part of Prime Minister Morodi’s campaign against corruption and tax avoidance but the consequences of the sudden cancellation of all 500 and 1,000 rupee bills has led to an economic crisis and widespread accusations that it is an attack on the poor. With uneven access to digital Continue Reading →
