Traitors at the BBC or BBC Traitors: who knows, who knew…

Featured Image: BBC Comedy Whose Line Is It Anyway 1988 that evolved out of the post Second World War 1950’s CBS US programme What’s My Line… Disgrace! Strictly reputational yet so unrepresentational: as any ordinary person from any ordinary background knows to get a job in the BBC you have to mask, deracinate be an imposter: because […]

Jan 25 Just Thinking about the ‘future cost’ of privatisations/outsources: Make Britain Well Again: 3

Featured image: Skegness is SO Bracing: Newcastle Poster Company We need to build a culture of trust between people. To do this we need to look closely at the crimes, social and health harms that have been caused under the ideology of ‘the value of privatising things and outsourcing‘ that seem to have done far […]

Assisted Dying: it’s more than a choice

The issue of Assisted Dying is a place where all the problems of social inequalities, a socially exclusionary supply chain way of delivering services and a legacy of patronage are quite likely to overwhelm Kim Leadbeater’s brilliant mission to change things for the better. Below: Danny Dorling’s mapping of economic, cultural and social health inequalities. Parliament […]

The Election of Don Trump: Make Britain Well Again 3

Featured Image: Map of the states American Election 2024 AP News 7:00am Donald Trump has won the US election: what this means here, now in West Bridgford (and Rushcliffe) is that we need localisation, better understanding of everyone who lives here and building a conversation that will rejuvenate relationships across the lifespan. It’s because the […]

Energy efficiency in social housing: Ventilation

Featured Image: Natural Ventilation The Department of Energy In England and Wales, social housing has an energy efficiency rating of 67.9 – an Energy Performance Certificate rating of D. This was 9% more energy efficient than privately rented properties and 12% more energy efficient than owner-occupied homes. Social rented housing is the most energy efficiency […]

Inequality snapshot: thoughts of a volunteer (1)

Featured Image: Illustrator R Fresson’s satyrical snapshot of the real cost of McDonalds: below is an article written by an experienced Nottinghamshire Foodbank volunteer After volunteering in Nottinghamshire foodbanks and wanting to find out more I was shocked to discover that there are more food banks than McDonalds branches in the UK! Trussell Trust run […]

collective Solution:Let’s Connect!

Featured Image: Unhealthy Neighbourhood Syndrome: A Useful Label For Analysing and Providing Advice on Urban Decision Making? ‘Landlords need to take ventilation more seriously if we are to combat damp and mould, writes Alan Siggins, managing director of Airflow’ He might well be right: he manufactures air ventilation products, Alan knows the need, the skill shortages, […]

Is your gift video? then Apply by 13th May! Portland Inn Project Hanley

Featured Image: Portland Inn TV Logo Portland Inn Project is rooted in Hanley, Stoke on Trent but its artist partnership takes its reach across the world. Action research artists Anna Francis and Rebecca Davies combine the spirit of Cedric Price with a healing community practice that Cedric Robinson would have understood. Anna, Rebecca and the […]

Urban Health Council + Centric Lab

I’ve just completed the most amazing online course run by a really interesting and dynamic team of neuroscientists at Urban Health Council+Centric Lab The team put their learning, expertise, networks and research at the disposal of people like me who are interested, involved and engaged in a wide range of community change and development projects, […]

Local Amnesty Ambassador for Peace In West Bridgford: contact Saba If you want to get involved: Letter writing, baking, green events: you name it!

If we listen and act on the voices of children and young people, whether it’s about Online Safety, the world they want to see or in supporting them in our local neighbourhoods, I think we can reintroduce representation and democracy wherever we are. Whether it’s West Bridgford 2023 showing solidarity with Ukraine, Rushcliffe to stop […]