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Dave Weaver

@daveweaver25.bsky.social
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Author of speculative fiction, five books published by Elsewhen Press, plus other short story anthologies and self-published works. Graphic Designer (retired). Prog rock enthusiast and gig goer. Love live non league football. Happy to chat.

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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why does the philosopher Plato still matter? Because his moral theory connects our human psyche to a just society. And he gives warnings about how democracy can be subverted by populists using disinformation, false logic and hate speech. Read our review: www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/w...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JustBeauty has a new look. The free Blog which focuses on Art and our Sense of Justice now offers the chance for visitors to post short articles. These need to be relevant to our theme linking the Arts, Morality and Mental Wellbeing. Check it out and see if strikes a chord www.justbeautyportal.com
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are we masters of nature or part of nature ourselves? Do we garden the world or does nature and its ecosystems garden us? See article in JustBeauty blog on the book Natural Emergence: Gardening an Awakening. And add your thoughts. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/w...
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We Are Part of Nature
What has gardening got to do with self-awareness? And do we garden Nature, or does Nature garden us? These are some of the questions raised in a book by the permaculture expert Alison Ensor. We are pa...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Tao of Music, Britain’s Class System and What is the Point of the Past? Three stories in the latest edition of the JustBeauty Blog. Have a look and see if any of the articles catch your fancy. And please contribute your comments. mailchi.mp/de8b6f4e0549...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How could an opera at Glyndebourne be an attack on the British class system? Read the JustBeauty Blog to find out. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-politic...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What is music? Where does it come from? What does it mean? See the JustBeauty Blog, where we review Tao of Glass, a show which explores the link between the music of Philip Glass and ancient Chinese wisdom. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/tao...
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Tao of Glass - Just Beauty Portal
The question is pursued with the lightest, humorous touch by the actor, writer and co-director Phelim McDermott. When the show begins, a spotlight falls not
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Is it ego, greed or something more? What drives Donald Trump? mailchi.mp/d6b9ae279454...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Does a narcissist know he’s a narcissist? Take the President of the United States for example. If this diagnosis is true, what can we expect from the last two years of Trump’s declining term in office? www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/d...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Where Is Everyone? Fermi’s Paradox asks how it can be possible that that are so many billions of planets like ours in the universe, but so far no life has been discovered anywhere else? Just Beauty asks if there is still any room for God? www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/w...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My article on the Japanese Bushido Code in JustBeauty.com www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/j...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As wars proliferate and nations like the USA and Russia claim that “might is right” is there a way to build a safer world? We argue that by building regional power blocks, smaller nations could be protected. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-politic... Please read this hopeful vision of the future
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Engineering a Safer World
The author suggests that regional groupings of nations would be powerful enough to deter outside aggression. The regional power blocks would develop trade and political links among themselves, removin...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Is Donald Trump a clown who has gone power crazy or does he have a sensible strategy? This article considers his track record and actions so far. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-politic... Please read the analysis on JustBeauty Blog – add your comments and share it with your friends.
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Trump - a Killer Clown
Donald Trump has played the clown on the world stage. Have you stopped to think about the number of people who have died because of his decisions? Whether it's supporting the "war" in Gaza, denying cl...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What we are all wondering… Is Donald Trump a clown who has gone power crazy or does he have a strategy? Give us your view on the Just Beauty blog, that links the arts to our sense of justice. www.justbeautyportal.com#question Please visit our site and share it with your friends.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is a hotbed of sexual politics. Hear about the latest production of this masterly study of sexual abuse and power at London’s Royal Opera House, www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/moz... Please add Comments and Share our site which links the arts and our sense of justice.
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Sexual politics in the Marriage of Figaro
Power and Sex are the theme of Mozart's great comic opera. The nub of the plot is the struggle by Figaro and Susanna, on the eve of their wedding, to prevent their master Count Almaviva from exercisin...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Read our article A Grandparent’s Love Song about the book Wish on the Just Beauty blog. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/gra...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Two Sides of Consciousness What happens if you lose the left side of your brain after a stroke? Perhaps you can't walk or talk or understand what people are saying. But you may gain a sense of euphoria, mental expansion etc. and still know who you are. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/j...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Do animals have consciousness like humans? What goes on in our communication with pets and other species? Are we sufficiently aware of our cruelty to animals in factory farming? See our review of Beastly by Keggie Carew on the JustBeauty site at www.justbeautyportal.com/just-politic...
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Beastly is Beautiful
The ironically titled "Beastly" is a history of the relationship between humans and animals and calls us to respect the sentient world. It argues that animals have shaped our lives, our land, our civi...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Who will win the Labour Party’s Battle of Ideas? How can the government find the money to finance the welfare state and proper public services? Give us your opinion on the JustBeauty site at www.justbeautyportal.com#question
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Just Beauty Portal | Beauty. Truth. Justice.
Just Beauty searches for where the truth of brave, excellent art meets the truth of practical projects to improve our society and to protect nature.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Where does poetry come from? Inspiration or perspiration? Dionysus or Apollo? Read what some great poets say on Just Beauty at www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/whe...
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Where Do Poems Come From? - Just Beauty Portal
Many poetic careers have been marked by periods of silence (Longley’s own) or even the complete abandonment of the art (Rimbaud or Laura Riding).
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
How far must you go to find Silence? Meet the man who trekked to the North and South Poles and to the top of Everest to discover his inner peace. Review on JustBeauty: www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/t...
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The Search for Inner Peace - Just Beauty Portal
Surely few books about silence have been written by authors who made an unwitting discovery of its importance and value, learning by experience why it is
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Is Keir Starmer the best leader for Britain in the current Middle East crisis? If not, who should take over? Have your say on the JustBeauty site at www.justbeautyportal.com#question
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Just Beauty Portal | Beauty. Truth. Justice.
Just Beauty searches for where the truth of brave, excellent art meets the truth of practical projects to improve our society and to protect nature.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Are there any reasons to worry about AI? How about disinformation, surveillance, brainwashing, social control and maybe the end of democracy? JustBeauty examines the pros and cons of the rapidly-shifting technology at www.justbeautyportal.com/just-politic...
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Dangers and Benefits of AI
AI can benefit mankind or destroy society and democracy as we know it. The case for greater education and regulation of this new technology which is changing our world.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Dangers and Benefits of AI
AI can benefit mankind or destroy society and democracy as we know it. The case for greater education and regulation of this new technology which is changing our world.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We consumer shoppers in the developed world have sold our souls (and planet) to the devil. Can we still be saved? The German writer Goethe offers an answer. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/how...
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How Gretchen Saves the Soul of Faust - Just Beauty Portal
How the soul of Dr Faust is saved by a combination of Christian and classical pagan values. The female fertility goddess plays a larger part than God the Father.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Is it clear yet Who is the Winner in the Iran War? See the comment column on the Just Beauty blogsite, where we seek polite opinions from around the world. www.justbeautyportal.com#question
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Bob Dylan’s world of suffocating and fickle women. Was the legendary singer and songwriter fair to the female sex? www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/bob...
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Bob Dylan's world of fickle women
Bob Dylan is one of the finest ever writers of protest songs, about the oppression of poor people, young people, black people in the militarist, capitalist hustle of the USA. But what about his depict...
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The revised Just Beauty Blog poses a Question of the Week: Is there still a path to Peace in the Middle East? Click here: www.justbeautyportal.com#question We look at the possibilities for human understanding and trust beyond religious creeds, political ideologies and culture and race.
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Just Beauty Portal | Beauty. Truth. Justice.
Just Beauty searches for where the truth of brave, excellent art meets the truth of practical projects to improve our society and to protect nature.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My new author book site is online. Please take a look. daveweaverauthor.com
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Dave Weaver
Dave Weaver has written a large number of short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction and speculative fiction. He has five books published by Dartford-based speculativ
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Simon Bowden @justbeauty333.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This interesting female-centred book is not told by the glamorous model Veronica, but by her friend Alsion who trails in her wake.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Goethe’s Faust is an emblem of modern man. With his sidekick Mephistopheles he can have anything he wants in the world. He creates a new human life, he prints money, he beds a phantom Helen of Troy. But do his techno powers make him happy? Read article on www.justbeautyportal.com/just-aware/f...
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Goethe's Faust, a Parable of Modern Techno Man - Just Beauty Portal
This may be the most eccentric review of Goethe’s Faust ever written, as I have only read the two parts of the play over Christmas in English translations.
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
JUST BEAUTY PORTAL; a review of 'Veronica' Women trapped by the need to be beautiful. Read our review of the award-winning novel Veronica, where the heroine is sucked into the dark side of fashion, modelling and the highs and lows of drug addiction. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/wom...
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Women Trapped in the Web of Beauty - Just Beauty Portal
Mary Gaitskill’s novel, Veronica, is a meditation on truth and beauty told by its self-proclaimed peripheral protagonist, Alison. The novel loosely tracks her
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Victims of the secret police in Iran. What happens when a suspected torturer is captured by dissidents?  Will they kill him and have they got the right man? www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/sec...
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Secret Police and their Blindfolded Victims - Just Beauty Portal
There is then an extraordinary sequence where a mechanic, Vahid, observes the man with fear and disgust, pursues him secretly and kidnaps him. A little later
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
How Britain lit the fuse that led to the Arab Israeli conflict The film that brings alive the last days of the British Empire as it tried to keep order between Arabs and Jews in the Palestine Mandate. And the role of Christian Zionist Orde Wingate. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/bri...
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How We Sowed the Seeds of the Middle East Conflict - Just Beauty Portal
Balfour had promised the Jews the right to “a national homeland.” At the same time there was a vague caveat that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
How Britain lit the fuse that led to the Arab Israeli conflict The film that brings alive the last days of the British Empire as it tried to keep order between Arabs and Jews in the Palestine Mandate. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/bri...
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How We Sowed the Seeds of the Middle East Conflict - Just Beauty Portal
Balfour had promised the Jews the right to “a national homeland.” At the same time there was a vague caveat that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A world without white people Catch this five star exhibition at the Royal Academy until January 18. It documents the lives and dreams of the “invisible” black population of the USA. Giant paintings, beautiful colours; a new Reviewed on the Just Beauty site: www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/the...
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The Artist of Black Beauty and Reality - Just Beauty Portal
Because the bodies are all black skinned, we see less detail and facial expression than we are used to in western art. We have to think harder about what is
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
DEFENDING THE BBC FROM FOREIGN INTERFERENCE The BBC is under attack from Donald Trump and his right wing allies in the British media. Why we should never let this icon of British culture be undermined: www.justbeautyportal.com/just-politic... This is an article on the justbeautyportal.
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Defending the BBC through Dangerous Times - Just Beauty Portal
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#search/bbc+trump/FMfcgzQcqtkLKVPQTvwtcZPZTTdmFZMR
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Dave Weaver @daveweaver25.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A world without white people Catch this five star exhibition at the Royal Academy until January 18. It documents the lives and dreams of the “invisible” black population of the USA. Giant paintings, beautiful colours: www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/the...
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The Artist of Black Beauty and Reality - Just Beauty Portal
Because the bodies are all black skinned, we see less detail and facial expression than we are used to in western art. We have to think harder about what is
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Simon Bowden @justbeauty333.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
JUSTBEAUTY BLOGSITE We aim to share ideas and promote public debate on our free, non-profit and curated site. We will provide facts you can trust, and opinions based on our human emotional responses rather than any ideology. www.justbeautyportal.com
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Just Beauty searches for where the truth of brave, excellent art meets the truth of practical projects to improve our society and to protect nature.
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Simon Bowden @justbeauty333.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
SIX IDEAS TO IMPROVE THE NHS This article on the Justbeautyportal reports on a seminar led by a retired hospital consultant, voicing some frustrations! Please visit our site and subscribe to the free newsletter shown at the bottom of each page. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-practic...
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Is the NHS Fit for Purpose? A seminar led by a retired NHS consultant - Just Beauty
1:  A proposal that the NHS and Social Care should be funded and organised as a single system. This could reduce the blocking of around a third of hospital
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