The term ‘inner cities’ seems to have disappeared from the vocabulary of educated debate. The Guardian itself says so. Why, given that it dominated political discussion in the 1980s? The answer is, I think, that – certainly in London – the poor don’t live there any...
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The wide variety of time banks across Europe
Time banks. Edgar Cahn launched the first six in the USA in 1987. Martin Simon launched the first one in the UK at the end of 1998, but you can find them now all over Europe. When I was writing our new report for the European Commission's research centre on...
The New Foodie
This blog was meant to be about the recipes of William Cobbett and so it will be but I want to take a short deviation about the way we eat our food now. As long as I live, may I never read another restaurant review. There are two minor problems with them. One is the...
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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
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