Stuart Harry Yates
Stuart Yates moved away from his working class roots following graduation and pursued a career in private industry in various market sectors. This experience, which included a spell in running his own company, gave him an insight into how capitalism works at the micro economic level.
Politically he also moved away from his Labour roots, supporting the Conservative party with increasing uneasiness through the Thatcher years, abandoning them when seeing the first interview with John Major. The Liberal Democrats now express views broadly in tune with his own. Until recently he had never been active in politics and has never been a member of any political party. His new-found activism reflects the degree to which politics and global economics have moved away from humanity.
Following early retirement, through redundancy, he resumed an alternative career in counselling and psychotherapy, working in Primary Care, higher education and in private practice.
His views are informed by a faith based on Christian teaching whilst deeply respecting the faiths and views of others. Recently he has become a member of the Society of Friends, being attracted by the broad compassionate nature of Quaker thought and belief as well as the Quaker tradition of social action.
His web site is theactivist.co.uk
Politically he also moved away from his Labour roots, supporting the Conservative party with increasing uneasiness through the Thatcher years, abandoning them when seeing the first interview with John Major. The Liberal Democrats now express views broadly in tune with his own. Until recently he had never been active in politics and has never been a member of any political party. His new-found activism reflects the degree to which politics and global economics have moved away from humanity.
Following early retirement, through redundancy, he resumed an alternative career in counselling and psychotherapy, working in Primary Care, higher education and in private practice.
His views are informed by a faith based on Christian teaching whilst deeply respecting the faiths and views of others. Recently he has become a member of the Society of Friends, being attracted by the broad compassionate nature of Quaker thought and belief as well as the Quaker tradition of social action.
His web site is theactivist.co.uk
Articles by Stuart Harry Yates
November 02, 2010
The need for and the ways in which people can be valued equally, for the good of all societies in the world.
August 25, 2010
Very few people are in favour of war and many of those achieve positions of power,but that is another story. Relatively few people are violent.
Yet we seem to live in a violent world and a world in which wars are fought with depressing frequency. Most of us are not in positions of power, ...
May 06, 2010
The terms morals and ethics are often used interchangeably but they have different meanings and these differences are important as they define the source and nature of what is being asserted; they are also important as morals and ethics define a person's and a nation's culture and values...
March 24, 2010
There is an assumption that anyone who breaks the law should be "punished". This is such an ingrained assumption that it is not questioned, but what might we find if we do question it? What does punishment mean? It seems to mean that if we do wrong in the eyes of the law then we will have things don...
February 22, 2010
What sort of world do you want to live in? What sort of life do you want to lead?
A world where everyone has at least the minimum - water, food, sanitation, shelter - or a world in which millions starve to death through non-existent or poisoned facilities,excess cold or heat an...
February 08, 2010
Reason is not our only faculty and it is not even our most valuable faculty. We all have a more precious faculty: intuition, the ability to know, immediately and clearly. We cannot prove that intuition is correct, or where it comes from. We either act on it, or ignore it. My belief is that comes fro...
January 25, 2010
"Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody eles's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."
(Frederick Buechner)
There are a number of definit...