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The time is right to unravel the meaning of ‘home’ for our changing times. Why, and how?
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The Dark Months Seventeen
As we reach the shortest day of the year with the Winter Solstice, it seems all hope is extinguished. But is it really?
Read More The Dark Months SeventeenThe Dark Months Eight
Remembrance of things past, grows an appreciation of things present and future in the eighth in the series, ‘The Dark Months’
Read More The Dark Months EightJournalism writes the headline of history
Art and creativity go beyond headlines. These human acts speak from the human soul far better than journalism ever can. And they present a challenge to museums and archives.
Read More Journalism writes the headline of historyGet back to work
With threats that our city centres will become ghost towns, and that working from home is killing the economy, there’s a cataclysmic tone ringing around conversations about work. The simple truth is, commuters are revolting. Why does this matter?
Read More Get back to workKnowledge
Knowledge is power. While that’s true, those who choose a deliberate blindness to facts, suggests that a lack of knowledge is also a comfort, and empowering for some at the expense of others. It’s that liberality with other people’s existence which is under challenge, and which should be challenged. Now, I know there will be […]
Read More KnowledgeEnglish Passive Aggression
This piece grew out of a gently amusing thread I’d posted to Facebook on the subject of English passive aggression. Why?
Read More English Passive AggressionTaking Positive Actions
We’re at a point in time where taking positive actions has become a conscious choice. We need change. In three short months we’ve gone from a situation where there was widespread support for Government actions to one where the exact opposite applies. This lack of faith carries across our social spaces – whether arts organisations, […]
Read More Taking Positive ActionsErasing TV and Film
Erasing TV programmes like Little Britain, League of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, Fawlty Towers, or films like Gone With The Wind and others seems very of the moment.
Read More Erasing TV and FilmThe parasitic existence
The parasitic existence is built upon a habitual and unquestioned way of living off the exploitation of others.
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