Having watched Ed Miliband’s speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, I have a couple of thoughts: Despite using the phrase “One Nation” 46 times at no point did Ed take the trouble to translate this into common parlance. I’m not saying that the Labour Party has to dot every I and cross every T [...]
October 3, 2012
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Two weeks ago I met someone who has inspired me and humbled me. A couple of years ago G was found homeless outside Wilkinsons in Halifax town centre. I don’t know much at all about G’s story about how he came to be outside Wilkinsons. What I do know is that last weekend he cycled [...]
September 18, 2012
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Ecuador today granted Julian Assange asylum in an attempt to prevent him being extradited to Sweden to face serious allegations of sexual assault. Assange and his supporters claim that the rape allegations are a politically motivated. He fears that the Swedes would hand him over to the Americans who want question him in connection with [...]
August 16, 2012
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154,272 Views What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food [...]
August 16, 2012
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