Entries Tagged as 'News'
Aspects for the week beginning 21 June 2020
Marcus Rashford “This is not about politics; this is about humanity” ~ Marcus Rashford Young footballer Marcus Rashford, aged only 22, procured a stunning U-turn from the government this week, on behalf of children living on the breadline. The government had refused to extend lunch vouchers through the summer holiday for schoolchildren who needed them. […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 7 June 2020
George Floyd (1973 – 2020) Black Lives Matter I, Too I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in […]
Aspects for the week beginning 31 May 2020
Jacinda Ardern revisited The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, kept her cool this week when an earthquake struck. She has also been praised recently for her exemplary handling of the pandemic in her country. I last wrote about her in March of last year after the massacre in Christchurch, so it may be […]
Categories: News
Aspect for the week beginning 24 May 2020
Dominic Cummings “But then he had just appointed as a special adviser Dominic Cummings, the former Vote Leave campaign director, a man so toxically divisive he couldn’t even unite himself” ~ John Crace, July 2019 Dominic Cummings has been in the news this weekend because on Friday night it was revealed that he broke his […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 3 May 2020
Tony Lloyd “It’s the humanity of it, the 150,000 small human gestures every hour that makes the NHS a human institution.” ~ Tony Lloyd You may not have heard of Tony Lloyd (Labour MP for Rochdale, Greater Manchester) but he gave a poignant and memorable interview to Helen Pidd in the Guardian on Friday following […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 26 April 2020
Donald Trump “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous – whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light… supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way… And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 12 April 2020
Keir Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet Keir Starmer, Leader of the Oppositon, put together his Shadow Cabinet this week. Some of these I have already written about, and some are new to my researches. There are nearly 100 listed, so I can only write about a few this week, and maybe come back to this theme another […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 22 March 2020
Chris Whitty Chief Medical Officer In a week when our lives have changed out of all recognition, the goalposts have been moved each day, day by day we are learning more about ourselves and about life. I am going to look at the chart of the man whose role it is to look after the […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 8 March 2020
Democratic Leadership Contest On “Super Tuesday” last week, the search for a hopeful to oust Donald Trump from office took an unexpected turn, when candidates pulled out and gave their backing to Joe Biden, and he experienced a huge upturn in his chances against Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders Bernie has often been described as the […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 1 March 2020
Priti Patel Priti Patel has been ruffling feathers since she took a seat at Boris Johnson’s cabinet table, but yesterday a senior civil servant, Sir Philip Rutnam, resigned at the Home Office under her regime. Dominic Cummings, whose stated aim is to erode the powers of the civil service, may be rubbing his hands in […]
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