Category Archives: Society

Telling It Like It Is: Technology

Technology is increasingly manipulating our minds. What we think we want might not be what we actually need. And this is making us sick. So, what can we do about it? Take a look or listen to the podcast with my guest, Ian Douglas.

The Historical Presence

Until we claim the future with positivity and hope, the past will always be our stumbling block. The story of Robert Aske, The Royal Africa Company, profits from slavery, and how they funded the Haberdashers’ Aske’s schools.

Telling history like it is

A conversation with Professor Corinne Fowler of the University of Leicester, and Director of ‘Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted’

Imagining the future

In summer 2019, I was on panels discussing Decolonising Culture (Royal Academy) and Reimagining Britain (Queen Mary, University of London). Many themes ran across both these experiences, foremost among them: Each of us has a story, often more than one. Our life experiences, origins, cultural imprints and conflicts, stories of migration (whether from Grimsby, orContinue reading “Imagining the future”

Poverty Wears a Young Female Face

Up to the mid 1990s, the advanced economies largely succeeded in delivering the promise of growing prosperity for the majority of their citizens. That’s now changing. Post WW2 prosperity was built on post-colonial systems exploitation of resources … and was not constructed to be fair to those outside the advanced economies. The people who createdContinue reading “Poverty Wears a Young Female Face”

Lewisham’s Enigmatic Colorful House and Its Owner

Brenton Samuel Pink, a member of the Windrush generation, purchased a colorful house in Lewisham in the 1960s and decorated it to reflect his Jamaican heritage. Despite experiencing racism, he actively contributed to his community. Pink’s life story illustrates the area’s complex history, highlighting both progress and ongoing challenges for future generations.