Live A Little, Work A Little, Fail A Little: How Mhairi Tells It Like It Is

Above: If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane Newly published 49year old Stephen Walsh’s comment about his first book Shine/Variance on Radio 4’s Open Book is a great description of Mhairi Mcfarlane’s sixth novel that I read and really enjoyed yesterday. Mhairi McFarlane books: Last Night, If I Never Met You ,You Had Me […]

Bennet Omalu: How His Struggle To Humanise American Scientific and Medical Research In His Work On Lifetime Brain Injury In Sportspeople Has Improved The Future Of Health For Everyone

encephalopathy (CTE). Rick Friedman /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images Above: Bennet Omalu, doctor, physician, neuropathologist whose work to understand the impacts of sport related brain injury was portrayed in the 2015 film Concussion CONCUSSION -The Film was about how the pathologist paid his employer so he had time to research a hunch on the brain damage American footballer Mike […]

From Ego To Eco: We Need To Be Genuine: On The Recuperation Of Hope

Featured image: From Ego to Eco: Royalty Free Stock Image Everyone knows that inclusion will change the world forever. It’s something we’ve never been able to do as the organisations, institutions we built after the second world war were hierarchical based on old colonial versions of race, class, gender and age. Even though war veterans, […]

Music, Poetry, Fiction: Making Sense and Sensibililty Out Of Injustice

Feaatured Image: Leyla McCall’s 2018 Album Capitalist Blues Above: The Ebb and Flow Of The Slave Trade: and links between Haiti and new Orleans… Leyla McCalla is a New York-born Haitian-American living in New Orleans, who sings in French, Haitian Creole and English, and plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar. Her parents were born in […]

Racialisation Is Over If You Want It: Coaches And Allyship: Creating The Ground

Featured Image: Wheel Of Intersectionalities Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Speak Up, Speak Out is the podcast dedicated to identity, anti racism and decoloniality, an issue currently centre stage, hosted By Charmaine Roche Coaching, Consulting, facilitating insightful social change in Nottingham and beyond https://www.lifeflowbalance.co.uk In the final episode of season three is a question about how coaching is […]

George Floyd Verdict: How The Ethics Matter Podcast Works To Generate Allyship

Featured Image Steve Biko. Stained glass window by Daan Wildschut in the Saint Anna Church, Heerlen (the Netherlands), ca. 1976. One of 12 modern saints How the Ethics Matter Podcast is developing intergenerational/intersectional allyship In the year since 46 year old George Floyd’s public execution on while allegedly being arrested for using a counterfeit twenty dollar note […]

Panya And Henry: Poets Brought To You By Inspire, Confetti and Metronome

Featured Image: Henry Normal and Panya Banjoko Below Panya Banjoko with a copy of her 2018 anthology Some Things published by Burning Eye Books and also available on Amazon Today (Weds 19th May at 12) via Zoom, Inspire libraries, Confetti and Metronome, Nottingham poets Panya Banjoko and Henry Normal talked about how and why they […]

NEW BIKE, A BARGAIN OR A REPAIR? JASON ALEY VALE CYCLES 0115 8373443

Vale Cycles on Boundary Road West Bridgford 01158373443 is the heart and soul of Jason Aley. You feel that when you go in to his West Bridgford shop: repairs, accessories, second hand bikes and advice on that new cycle to work purchase, you feel he loves cycling and cyclists, really going out of his way […]

Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle: To Keep Your Balance You Must Keep Moving…

Featured Image: Sao Paolo Street Artist Eduardo Kobra’s Illuminating mural of Einstein Keeping his balance Like street artist Eduardo Kobra’s fantastic image of Einstein on his bike (chasing a beam of light) promoting his dynamic search for relativity, we’re all seeking a way of connecting our lives with the environment in a meaningful and creative […]

Veronica Barnes: At The Top Of A Blue Mountain: Keeping The Conversation Going

Veronica Barnes won’t mind me telling you that she’s a senior. Still making beautiful bags and cards, she’s a mellower version of her dynamic and forceful self of her younger days. A fine figure of a woman she carries herself with energy and beauty. She’s also one of the pioneering women who set up Blue Mountain […]