by Bernadette Meaden | Feb 8, 2021 | Commentary
THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT seems to have discovered Schrodinger’s money tree. When there are lucrative contracts to be awarded, often to party donors or highly paid consultants, the supply of money seems limitless. When it comes to funding the unglamorous but...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jan 20, 2021 | Commentary
Green Burial by Martin Hayden. Published by The Garlic Press. Price £10. Many years ago I spoke to a veteran activist in the peace movement. When I asked him why he did what he did, he said, “It’s my love song to the world.” This book feels very much like a love song...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jan 15, 2021 | Commentary
ALMOST EVERY CHILD under 11 in the UK has been born under a Conservative government. There are books to be written about how multiple Conservative policies have increased and entrenched disadvantage for children over the past decade, but as we enter a third national...
