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- Carol Driver -
It’s something most of us reserve for the bedroom or intimate encounters. But, for many women, stripping off and baring all is part of their everyday working lives.
From single mums and part-time receptionists looking to earn extra ...
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The Recession Heralds
The End Of Western Materialism
The recession could be taken as the dawn of a new era. The world has been acquainted with the aggressive form of capitalism for a long time. ‘Laissez-faire’ wasn’t originally a bad system. Howe...
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How Did We Get Here From There?
- By Margaret Laird -
Ed Balls has told us we are plunging into the worst recession for 100 years. In February, four major bankers were arraigned in what amounted to a show trial before a Select Committee of the House...
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How Information is Used to ensure Responsible Lending
-By Neil Munroe-
The free flow of credit that consumers have been used to over the last decade has virtually dried up as lenders continue to tighten their credit granting criteria as a consequence of...
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Come Be My Light, Mother Teresa
Edited with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk
Now available from MC Rider
Mother Teresa stakes her claim as one of the 20th century’s foremost shapers of thought in a reaffirming compilation of her early letters. Come ...
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It may seem like blasphemy to claim affinity with James Caan. In fact, even worse, to try compare myself with him – he being who he is, a successful celebrated man, the dragon in the den. While I on the other hand, am a nobody, a has-been at bes...
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Following the publication of her novel
A Clockwork Apple
What does Belinda Webb think?
Social mobility under New Labour has apparently regressed to mid-Victorian levels, indicating a great part of the problem lies within our education system. H...
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-by Jonathan Fryer
Good news has been in short supply in the Middle East during the opening months of 2009. The Israeli onslaught on Gaza – in retaliation for the continued targeting of southern Israeli towns by rockets from the Hamas-controlled te...
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-by Sally Ramage
The United Kingdom has introduced an offence of possessing and of looking at extreme pornography. This offence has been in force since 23rd January 2009. It is contained in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.
What is an...
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-Vitali Vitaliev-
To anyone from, say, America or the Continent, this may seem an absurd question. It only acquires meaning, if we look at London from within. As writer Duncan Fallowell observed in 1996:
‘London doesn’t have straight lines. Its...
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“Time is not money. You can get more money. Can you get more time?”
- Paul Orfalea, Founder of Kinko’s Photocopy USA
When he grew up as a child, nobody believed he would do better in life. He was born in November 1947 to Al and Virginia O...
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Financial Exclusion
What Made Us Poor? - By Prof John O. S. Wilson
Financial exclusion is the inability, difficulty or reluctance of particular groups to access mainstream financial services. Financial exclusion can be assessed in relation to access...
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We may be able to do
10 Things to Defy the Recession
- By Hom Paribag
As society we are all going through difficulties. Although the economic problem started in the Western World initially, the effect of it has spread throughout the world. T...
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WE’RE BACK!
The human temptation to read, write and reflect has not been
diminished. As long as Humanity is here, our desire and ability to
remain alert and creative will always tend toward the progressive.
We are at the end of the experiment b...
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Ask your questions to
Julian Friedmann
Has the Value of Book Writing Gone?
The days of outstanding literary and creative writing have gone. Nowadays the entire community of writers, if not the whole of humanity, think the Internet is all that matte...
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Poet of the Month
Words can paint the pictures of our imaginations. They form our
ideas. Ideas influence the way we think. Thinking determines our
personalities and our personality determines who we are and how we
live – so say the many grea...
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By Alexei Talimonov.
Ukrainian born Alexei Talimonov is a successful and award-winning cartoonist
and illustrator. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines since 1978 in the UK, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Canada Germany, Italy, Iran, China ...
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Directed by Mary Wareham and Brian Liu
Disarm: A Documentary on Landmines
Next Step Productions in corporation with Toolbox DC
Available on DVD through Indiepix and Dogwoof
£10.99
Disarm is an ambitious effort by anti-landmine activist, Mary Wareham...
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100 Year William Noble CBE
In this month’s Society Catch, we talk to Northern Ireland’s sprightliest centenarian about life, work and change. -by staff writer.
William Noble has seen a lot. He may not like to use his knowledge of the past to spe...
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Richard
Berengarten
True to your absence, glory
To honour and remember Jacques Derrida,
b. 15 July 1930 - d. 8 October 2004
Is glory in the residue, mere evidence,
in shining track, in afterglow, in spoor?
Being too poor to ...
