Author: KB
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Developing Peace: TAZ, Empathy and Radical Listening
Was great to meet up with Kevin Corcoran again last night, who’s got another group of students from Calvin College in the US over in London and Belfast to explore issues of peace and reconciliation. I made some notes for a talk I gave to them which I thought I’d upload here. Please – these…
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‘Other’ now available in the US/UK as eBook | US Print Edition Coming Soon
Really pleased to announce that the UK edition of ‘Other‘ is available in the US and Canada as an eBook via Amazon (as it is in the UK too.) As I’m sure you know, you don’t need an actual Kindle to read Kindle downloads – you can get the software for free on your Mac…
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Ridiculous Sentence for Edward Woollard
Been meaning to post on this all day, but I’m disgusted by the 32 month sentence that has been handed down to Edward Woollard – the 18 year old student protester who threw a fire extinguisher off Tory party HQ. Let’s be clear: what he did was awful. It could have killed someone. It was…
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Sharing The Peace (Then Being Right Haddocks)
Interesting piece by Damian Thompson in the Daily Telegraph (HT Dave Walker) about the perils of ‘sharing the peace.’ I particularly like ‘Spock Papist’s comment: I guess the idea is that you shake hands and show affection to your neighbour for 1 minute in the week. Then you can go back to being a right…
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Hipsters Don’t Dream Beyond East Croydon
I had a dream last night. In full vivid colours. Groups of hipsters were walking in woods, by rivers. I wondered where they were, and how they got there, and was shown that this was their Sunday retreat, a place in the countryside, within reach of London, where there was walking, and birdsong. I went…
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What About the Homeless Who Don’t Have Golden Voices?
Undoubtedly a moving story – a guy fallen on hard times begs by the side of the road and is ‘rediscovered’ as having the perfect voice for radio and voice-overs. Just begs the question… are the homeless who aren’t so blessed with some great talent not worth helping?