Sometimes Social Media Antics Make you Smile -But If I Could Do The Impossible, I’d Ask Everyone in Britain To Make Empathy Cool In The UK Parliament

Above: 15th September every year is designated by the United Nations as National Democracy Day As Donald Trump’s playtime with power on twitter has shown, we need a space in society where the new can grow, the new of a better kind of world. Above: Friday 8th Feb’s Japan Times take on the things Trump’s […]

Under Privileged Eyes: The Future Of Parliament: MUCH, MUCH More Than UK Plc….

Featured Image: Wonderful Floor Plan Of The Houses of Parliament 1843: Image Alamy G38E26 As well as rethinking where parliament could be relocated to, temporarily or permanently while the London buildings are repaired and refurbished, parliament needs to make space for change, debate and discussion about better representation because we need to solve social issues. […]

“Designing isn’t only about making new designs. Experiments, adventures and dreams should be realized in all areas of life, woven together to create a rich and interesting journey. This is something I aspire to and I am looking for ways to encourage others with.” Textile Artist Marja Hämäläinen

Featured Image: Marja Hämäläinen 2019 biologia_cotton Above: Textile Artist Marja Hämäläinen that I met at Minor Oak in November 2016 A few days ago, I was browsing Linkedin and Marja had posted about creativity, retaining your beginner’s mind, always looking at things with a fresh eye so you can use your creative experience and developing skill to always […]

Overcoming Hostility: Holocaust, Windrush, Work, Health, Education, Social Media…and Football…

Like you, like all of us now, I feel my eyes are under siege with media, media, social media. We’re required to up our heads NOW and look, look, look. Like dipping hens or nodding dogs or the humiliated going up and down on a ducking stool, there’s always another truth about social media and […]

Up The Charlies: What Alston, Drew and Chaplin Have To Offer September 2020

Above: painter, sculptor, botanist Charles Alston’s image of African American research scientist, surgeon Charles Drew, founder of Blood Banking for Britain in 1940 highlighted in author, writer, dramatist and activist Naomi Alderman’s Science Stories Charlie Chaplin, as Kathleen Turner noted in the BBC programme Icons Of The 21st Century was actually talking about how he really […]

NHS England: Perpetual Motion Quango or …Could Democracy Be The Thing That Could Ensure The Future Of The NHS?

When near to pregnancy term Tulip Siddiq was wheeled into parliament to vote and when I heard Michael Gove’s terrified speech after the Brexit vote, I saw clearly that we need a representative parliament that could restore balance to britain. Parliament has become a place that only thinks britain is a business, and in the last forty […]

Brains Draining Away: 21st Century Social Inclusion: Technology And The High Street: Everybody Matters

Featured image: 87 year old Florence and 4 year old Charlie: we need to include more people, more of the time. Let’s rethink the local and who are customers: work, technology: high streets: supporting business and creativities…. Although we’re often preoccupied with work, training and self development, changes to the cultural environment of work, blurring […]

Work Like It’s 2019 Not 1919: It’s A Gordian Knot Not Unlike The Hidden Superloops Within A Woman’s Second X Chromosome

Above: DNA superloops. (Guhapriya Ranganathan) as part of her exhibition Cultured Interactions recently commissioned by the Broad Institute. Women have two X chromosomes. Unfolded, each X is two inches long. One is inactive and folds into a structure called the Barr Body, which was discovered in 1949. The Barr Body contains massive superloops bringing DNA sequences […]

“I never thought that this project would speak to the imagination of so many people. Before and during the expedition, we were too close to it, too involved. Now it feels like we’re taking some distance and that’s when you realize it’s a lot bigger than we thought.” – Liesbeth Ter Veldt Clean2Antarctica: (We Need New Currency, Though, Not Plastic Coins)

Above Lisbeth Ter Velde Image: Clean2Antarctica Above: The Solar Voyager car that nearly reached the south pole this Christmas The wonderful vision to take a car made from community recycled plastic to the south pole was hampered by weather conditions so they didn’t actually get there. The project though, didn’t feel it had failed and […]

Stunted State of America: Why Did 7 Year Old Jakelin Caal Maquin and 8 Year old Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, Die?

Above: 8 year old Felipe Alonzo Gomez Image: Catarina, featured in The Cut The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for itself the most succulent, the central coast of my own land, the delicate waist of America. It rechristened its territories as the ’Banana Republics’ and over the sleeping dead, over the restless heroes who brought about […]