Beautiful streets, pavements, shop signs in Nottingham: participative, creative retailing in an opencity: starting in Hockley?

Above: 1950 Jacob Lawrence Painting: Sedation: Is it medication or mental illness that inhabits and inhibits a patient? The Case is Now for Beautiful Streets, Pavements, Shop Signs: they can change the way we see and feel the world: it’s seventy five years since the second world war ended and we’re still debating, contesting, the kind of economy we should […]

If There Is Hope It Lies With Those Who Speak Up, Speak Out: Charmaine Roche Life Flow Balance Podcast: Episode 1

Featured Image: Still from 1984 Film Poster: John Hurt as Winston Smith, Suzannah Hamilton as Julia Above Charmaine Roche whose new podcast Speak Up, Speak Out aired Thursday 30th April 2020 I’m misquoting Winston Smith in Orwell’s 1984 to reflect on a podcast I’ve just listened to, a new podcast called Speak Up, Speak Out […]

The Whole World In The NHS That Boris Can Re-Evaluate: (Scrap Justin Time And Profiteering In The Health Service, Abolish NHS Student Tuition Fees Please)

Featured Image: Boris on Twitter in Full Flow After Discharge From St Thomas’s Hospital 12th April 2020 Here’s a thing now Boris is out of danger: let’s make the NHS smaller, local and accountable to the diverse communities that bring so much history, knowledge and experience to Britain. Let’s get rid of over powerful individuals […]

Long Lives Study 1958 To Now And Children Who Fought For The Play Street 1972

Featured Picture: Bill Withers (Ain’t No Sunshine) taken in 2014. A typical Bill Withers quote: ‘I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.’ Back in 1958 a great survey began with children born […]

2020 Vision: Real Human Ways Of Living And Working Please: Get The Scale Of Things We Do Right, First Time

In Lab Rats, Dan Lyons questions the culture of work that’s grown up around the implementation of technologies in the last forty years and how we’ve avoided the things we know we need and have been distracted by the things we don’t. Have quick watch of Marc Marasco’s YouTube summary He talks about organisational developments […]

Working Class And Migrant News: A New Kind Of Mosaic Of Value: Re-Presenting How We Work, Think: Rich In The Local Detail: All The World Is Here…

Featured Image: And The Migrants Kept Coming 1941 (escaping from National Socialist persecution in Germany) Jacob Lawrence Above: New York In Transit Jacob Lawrence 2001 Look around Britain seventy four years after the second world war and I’d say you’re looking at a big story where the economic, political, and social structures are unfinished, where […]

One Day I’ll Write A Comic Soap: (And We Will Be Royally Entertained): Christine Hassall: Art/Design/Photography With Care…Designed With Love

Featured Image: Major Oak charm necklace: Oak theme intertwined with Tibetan Silver Flower Forest Wooden Handmade Heart: £13.00 Wow! What an economic regenerator through Small Is Beautiful prinicples. I met Christine Hassall when I temped at Logobrand. They’re a small is human brand agency in the centre of Nottingham. Christine is their marketing executive which […]

The Attention Of The Conservatives to Working Class People In This Election Has Paid Off. Now The Structures Of Proper, Regular Connection That Are Needed For Health, Wealth And Happiness Need To Be Delivered: Boris: We Are All Equal Here…

Last night the country voted for a quick exit: for Brexit. Boris stuck to the PR plan of Lynton Crosby, Dominic Cumming, the PR and the soundbites and it was hard for the manifestos of hope to have a moment. What was stunning though, is that although the turnout was on average about 68% that […]

One Of Your Employees Was Deported: News As Art From Sneinton To Tanzania

Featured Image: Gal Dem Article: Caribbean Elders Classified As Having No Status…. In the court 2006: another rehearsal Weeping: why am I silent? Against the law to speak? Dressed to address, yet justice is locked up, coded, password protected. Pronouncements like hexes, spells, sophisticatedly packed with medieval mystery and they speak everyone: barristers, solicitors, […]

Bisto: The Way Words And Images Connect Us 90 Years On

‘Ah! Bisto’. Roast dinner season! It’s a legacy between generations: grandparents, parents passing on the joy of a cooked, shared dinner. Like presents and heirlooms, it’s the atmosphere we remember, especially at this time of year. Like many great inventions, Bisto gravy was created through necessity. A Mr Roberts and Mr Patterson, employees of the […]