Yasmin Alibhai Brown Sunday 19 May 2013 “According to the latest survey results, 56 per cent think benefits are too high and stop people looking for work. At the height of Thatcherism, the figure was 35 per cent” Austerity has hardened the nation’s heart http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/austerity-has-hardened-the-nations-heart-8622568.html via @IndyVoices
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 50 Years Ago Today: ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ — http://ht.ly/lbvoL The Good Men Project
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What To Say & Not To Say to Someone with Depression: 10 Things http://www.mdavidhancock.com/201… Depression needs much more tangible encouragement than a dismissive attitude to “just get over it.” Here are some “do’s and don’ts” of “what to say” and…
10 Replies A disabled person’s open letter to PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka. Dear Mark I am about to leave for London to join my trade union’s delegation at the TUC Women’s Conference. I find myself experiencing considerable anxiety at the prospect of coming into contact with members from the PCS delegation. I am writing […]
robswihart Category:Addiction, Recovery, Self-Help Being two years clean and sober I have been thinking back to a letter I read in rehab that was from my addiction. This is not something I wrote, rather something that has been given to many patients in recovery to remind us that our addiction does not discriminate. My Addiction […]
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Photograph by Taslima Akhter Mohammad Fasiul Alam Bhuiyan Mohammad writes of this moving heart-rending situation with great intensity and beauty jm “In the end of silence : Perhaps they were close to each other in life. Perhaps they only had a nodding acquaintance. Perhaps they were a couple charmed by the many shades of beauty […]
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Enemy within: Thatcher and Prescott at a remembrance service In my opinion this both the most precise and authentic statement ever made by John Prescott and by far the best explanation of her terrible impact on Britain. jm ByJohn Prescott ”I despised everything she stood for - she may have been a woman, but in her […]
#Austerity has hardened the nation’s heart – Yasmin Alibhai Brown- The #Independent
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown Sunday 19 May 2013 “According to the latest survey results, 56 per cent think benefits are too high and stop people looking for work. At the height of Thatcherism, the figure was 35 per cent” Austerity has hardened the nation’s heart http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/austerity-has-hardened-the-nations-heart-8622568.html via @IndyVoices