I watched a programme tonight about pensioners and their hardships in relation to keeping themselves warm on a State pension in Britain – given that fuel prices have risen by 73 percent since 1970. Last week’s news covered how much petroleum companies had made in profit… Coincidence? I think not. The real money is in [...]
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Standing in the reception of the Youth Offending Service I currently work for, a colleague from the training department came in with a brown cardboard box filled with literature, condoms and a prosthetic penis/condom demonstration model. She began a conversation, elaborating to myself and the others present, how she would be using the contents of [...]
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Dear Gordon Brown – a message, a request, a plea … “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. We hear this call to arms on a daily basis. We respond with creating something – something we feel will help our country, its people – and [...]
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Did you see the news last night? The British Government want to build more nuclear power stations, in order to redress power price costs, guarantee supply, prevent power shortages etc, etc. How very worthy of them… Let’s consider this for a moment. Is it yet another short-term fix? Is this proposed power proposal going to [...]
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Sailing too close to The Edge? (You too, huh…) As a boy and young man, my father taught me how to sail; he instilled the importance of safety and the virtues of good seamanship. We would sail around Gabriola Island and the Gulf Islands – just off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, and depending on [...]
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STIs, young people, Chlamydia and teenage pregnancy – a Gordian Knot? A puzzle so complex, that it appears unsolvable? (Ancient history lesson – the Gordian Knot was an intricate, seemingly undoable knot in ancient Phyrgia; an oracle prophecised that the person who solved the puzzle of the Knot would become king of Asia. A bit [...]
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The morning headlines – Pill to be available over counter – Daily Telegraph – 13 – 12 -07 . So under 16s will be able to get the pill prescribed by a pharmacist. Moral panic hits the nation – or a brilliant concept? The nation holds its breath. Meanwhile the morning after pill has been [...]
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