Making Connections
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Sometimes I get invited to give weird talks. Like, to the people who dress up in stuffed animal costumes to perform at sporting events. Unfortunately I couldn’t go. But it…
2010
Green is the Colour
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We are now living with the Electorate’s choice: a hung parliament. This could well be the most accurate expression of the level of enthusiasm most people have had towards the…
It’s News To Us
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For just a few moments, this article will bring you, the reader and I, the writer together. We don’t have to agree, and that’s fine by me. It’s called opinion.…
Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010
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There was a serendipitous turn of events here in London early this March. The team at London’s Birds Eye View Film Festival were only days into their annual celebration of…
Making The Earth Go Round
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Achim Steiner is the man who coined the phrase ‘peak everything’ in a speech to World Challenge – a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses that are…
Coming Home
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‘Get real’ is an idiom I have never had positive associations with. Its expression passes judgement, conjuring as it does images of one finger-pointing, eyebrow-raising human shadow on a pedestal…
Take It From The Top
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One of the most important traits of a good leader is their ability to make the right decisions. Wise decision-making, inevitably, involves moral, or ethical choices, and this occurs every…
The Commons People
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Like many people, I started the year not exactly looking forward to the UK elections. The mess that was Copenhagen paid testament to the lack of any real leadership in…
Treeless Mountain
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The sisters are abandoned by their poverty- stricken mother to face their new role as burdensome children in the hands of their alcoholic Big Aunt. Brushed aside and ignored, Jin…
