Tag Archives: humanity
National debt: who do we owe?
What is it about the ‘national debt’ that I am not getting? Please forgive me for not being an economist but, when you owe loads of money, you can’t keep up with the repayments and you plunge deeper and deeper … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank of England, creative thinking, humanity, Innovation, leadership, national debt, unpayable debt
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Benefit cuts: a call to mobilise the disabled
So now we are here in another New Year and, in the UK, the savagery of social welfare cuts continues to slice through our society. We have had: 06 January: ‘Soldiers, nurses and teachers hit by benefit curbs’ 07 January: … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, benefit cuts, British Government, Creativity, Disability Discrimination Act 2005, Disability Living Allowance, disabled, DLA, flexitime, human behaviour, humanity, Innovation, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Olympics, mobility, NHS, social welfare cuts
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Humanity can overcome technology
First posted on Huffington Post on 15 Feb 2012 Two days. Two media channels. Two writers. Alain de Botton is an eminent philosopher who has written ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’, ‘The Consolations of Philosophy’ and ‘The Pleasures and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain de Botton, Charles Vallance, connectivity, counterculture, divergence, geeks, humanity, JFK, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Obama, outrage, principles, punk, radicalism, soul, technology, Thatcherism, The Iron Lady, touch, Winston Churchill
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