Above: War Correspondent Claire Hollingworth who died Jan 2017 aged 105 in Hong Kong. Her autobiography was published by her nephew in 2016 To understand and change difficult things we see in the news, the media, remember the things, people, situations we see are always, really in shock themselves, out on a limb but in a […]
Read More Understand The Psyche Of The War Correspondent: Apply Those Tools At Home….?Above: Andrea Levy, artist, author, commentator Image: Laurie Fletcher Since the second world war in Europe, American investment and funding, migrant and immigrant skills and expertise have been vital to the development of Britain’s infrastructure. Yet the way certain knowledge, as Andrea Levy, artist, writer, playwright and commentator, points out in a recent programme about her […]
Read More Andrea Levy…The Secret Story Of The BBC Christmas Tapes: Let Talent From Every Race, Gender, Age And Class Transform Our World in 2019Featured image: the incomparable Stevie Wonder a blind man who helps us to see… Above: commentator, poet, children’s change agent Lemn Sissay Lemn Sissay won’t give up. Ever. Out of experiences of fostering and institutional care in childhood that took him beyond his own experiences into the experiences of so many children and back into what […]
Read More Pondering Superstition in The UK: Why Lemn Sissay’s Blog is Keeping The Conversation Going With More People, More Of The Time And What If Bet 365 Had Been A New Approach to Trading In the Inner City Instead….Image: Paul Motion’s The Story of Maryam, a Soul Note album issued in 1984 and a Safe Passage, Lesvos Solidarity purse made out of a refugee lifejacket gifted by Greek economist Yannis Varoufakis at the Sheffield Festival of Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyEm3WJyyVw Maryam is a name that combines east and west, south and north, religious, social and […]
Read More Can We Do It? Consuming Less, Producing More… Why Complexity Is Really Interesting…Above: serpent like wind instrument 3D Printed: how collaboration and distribution of knowledge heralds health for all and a much better future The NHS is based on the reality of people’s lived work and life experiences. Because so much of what the NHS can do is contested by an austerity morality, an austerity ideology, then […]
Read More Inside The Serpent Of The NHS: Challenge The Way We See People: Their Jobs, Their Lives: Their Contributions: Make Localising Everything The Norm: Part 2Above: chart of most common forms of spinal injury Novelist Sarah Perry suffered an excruciating injury and instead of getting access to the spine surgeon https://www.londonnorwichspine.co.uk/meet-mr-rai-and-the-team at the spine clinic she needed straight away, as you’d imagine would be here in the 21st century (not the 12th), -she’d have grown up, as you and I […]
Read More The Serpent That Ingratiates Itself Inside The Supply Chain Of The NHS: Drugs are US Part 1A society that seeks only to meet the needs, answer the questions and aspirations of only one group needs fine tuning. It’s uncivilised. Austerity has been used for the past forty years as a weapon against understanding, insight into who we are, why we are here and what we need at home, at work and […]
Read More Stand Up For A Working Life Full of Promise, Purpose and Meaning For Everyone: Project Civil Life: Get Rid Of The Lottery?Featured image: Rockley Memorial Play Park Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire I originally wrote this article on Sunday 13th November, 2016. I’ve revisited it as on 16th September 2018 there were two events, Let’s Ride (wow, 6000 cyclists turned out along the 6km route!) and, at the Arboretum, Nottingham Green Festival. When I think about the […]
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