You Can’t Have A Society Inside A Company But In A Way You Can: The Creativity Around Micro Businesses and SMEs: Making A Great Future For Everyone

In a small company you can see your product, feel responsible for your service, keep track on its development. Handmade Indian Copper Handi Pot – Copper Serveware & Tableware – Holds 1000mL – Serves Up to 4 People You know your customer and are really engaged in growing and building. You know you shouldn’t have […]

Under Privileged Eyes: Why We Need To Grow People AND Infrastructure Together: Beyond ‘Never Again’ Must Really Mean That…The Companies And People Who Are Doing Just That

Above: recent re-issue of the 1973 bestseller Small is Beautiful by Diana, wife of the original author, EF Schumacher We all live under privileged eyes I think: it’s clear when you look at how the ideas and ideals of what is a productive human, why being an adult and even living as an older person are so […]

Grand Cars: Driving Nottingham Forward in 2018: Executive Taxi, Airport Transfers, Cruise Port and Terminal Transfers. Prompt, Great Service, Consideration: Oh Happy Day!

Driving stressed through yet another polluted traffic jam, is there a way around it? Above: London Road just before the island joining Canal Street, Parliament Street and Cranbrook Street/Barker Gate Nottingham City Council is debating the use of a pollution charge to create clean air zones. Well, you could consider an executive car for your journey, you […]

A Breath Of Fresh Air: Print and Ink’s Sarah Holden’s Silk Screen Workshop At The Place, Sherwood, Saturday 10th Feb

Sarah Holden is a real print enthusiast. With a degree in Illustration from Birmingham City University, only three years ago, she’s now set up her business Print and Ink to share more of her skills, experience and resources with more people, more of the time. Above: Sarah Holden of PrintandInk who ran the Silk Screen […]

What Do We Really Mean When We Talk About Social Mobility: Are You Distantly Or Closely Related To A Dinosaur or a Freed Slave? Lost and Found in 2018

Above: All Bar none Youth Conference 2016 Important things, really important things, that lift us as human beings come to us through language and communication: conversation, connection …. It’s quite possible to live in the kind of environment that George Orwell showed in 1984 where individuals histories were endlessly wiped out, rewritten, to protect the […]

A Most Beautiful Book: Fugitive Pieces By Anne Michaels

On my birthday, the year my daughter went to university to begin studying architecture she gave me a book that had really touched her in a way she found hard to express. It was called Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels a book that makes you think about why literature and culture matter so much. It’s […]

Reconstruct, Reconstruct, Reconstruct: We Need New Houses and Jobs and Futures

Here we are in 2018…Coming up 2021 Coventry will be the next European city of culture. Above the interior of Coventry Cathedral designed and delivered by Sir Basil Spence, architect, consecrated 1962, the previous cathedral bombed in November 1940 originally built in the 14th century and the exterior of the replacement. Nearby is Wolverhampton, in […]

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and The Standard Assessment Procedure (SAPs)

The Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) measures the energy rating of residential and commercial buildings, has been around since 1995, with updates every couple of years since then. It calculates the typical annual energy costs for rooms and space and water heating and, since 2005, lighting. CO2 emissions are also calculated. The SAP runs from 1 […]

Not Just Drones: Real Regeneration Of Britain is About Applying The Strongest Technologies to the Remotest Places: How About Autonomous Vehicles and Ultrafast Broadband In The Remote Highlands First?

Featured Image: Development of avionics and testing for the drone Sky Hopper in the Western Isles Whatever you think about the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland debate, whatever you think about Brexit, does it ever occur to anyone that with these kinds of ‘future packages’ all we’re going to get is more of the […]

Whatever Did Council House Tenants Do To You: 18.5m appeal/7m Evening Standard/23.5 m Government and Council Money-No Land to build on? No Homes To Be Built? (What Can We Do With 47 Million Pounds) Reversible Reactions in 2017

I think I began to realise what was wrong with the marketisation of social information when I went back to university as a part time student. Wow! I just loved psychology, literature, word and image, american poetry, culture, learning about gender and discrimination. I really did. I also wanted to feel at home there. A […]