“When your Prime Minister begins to quote Kermit the Frog on climate change on the most important stage in the World, you know you are in trouble. “
Kermit and the Tousle haired Eco-Warrior
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There is hope ( ?)
“I am not really bought into the notion that the downfall Afghanistan in so short a period of time was completely unpredictable”
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
Two men meet in Lahore, from totally different parts of the world yet connected by an understanding of a country they both know but from very different perspectives .
The choices we have
Health poverty is as real as any other poverty and the position of countries with less resources than ours is there to be seen.
Bloody Orkney – A game of Secrets and lies – Ken Lussey
Bloody Orkney is set in World War II and follows a series of story lines around a central set of characters in an Intelligence Organisation lead by a Group Captain Bob Sutherland and his mysterious colleague Monique Dubois of MI
Integrity
“For those about to look away…this is not just about football….”
From barriers to behaviour
“ My freedom affects your freedom “Professor Stephen Reicher (Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews and a member of the SAGE subcommittee on behaviour science)
Jack and crises
A former boss, many years ago, once banned the word “ crisis” in the office .
Bombs not bairns
In an excellent article in the Guardian on 29th of March Karen McVeigh talked about the damage to people’s lives in Syria from the fall out of British Foreign Aid cuts from 0.7% To 0.5% GDP.
Men and women. Women and men
This week we have possibly the most difficult subject to approach, the murder of a lovely young woman full of life and promise by a sexual predator.
