by Bernadette Meaden | Jan 8, 2022 | Commentary
REINDEER CYCLONES: the term was strange to me when I came across it recently, but it describes a beautiful and rather moving natural phenomenon. A reindeer cyclone occurs when a herd feels under threat. The reindeer gather together in a tight circular group, and begin...
by Bernadette Meaden | Dec 15, 2021 | Commentary
GIVEN the Prime Minister we have, and the events of the last decade, it’s completely understandable that trust in politicians is at an all-time low. The UK’s current leadership has given us very little reason to trust, or even to believe them. And it has been...
by Bernadette Meaden | Dec 2, 2021 | Commentary
CONSERVATIVES LIKE TO PRETEND that poverty is complicated. They insist that it’s not just a question of low wages and inadequate social security, but more an issue of personal responsibility. Indeed, as he embarked on his damaging welfare ‘reforms’ in 2012, Iain...
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 26, 2021 | Commentary
FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE the message of the nativity, Christmas can never be cancelled, nor indeed saved, by a politician. But perhaps our celebration of it really does need to change. For many people, it has become a stressful season of pressure to spend money they...
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 7, 2021 | Commentary
WHEN THEY CAME HOME at the end of the First World War, many ex-servicemen faced poverty and unemployment, and their anger led to civil unrest. On Peace Day 1919, Luton Town Hall was burned to the ground. Indeed the Summer of 1919 is now known to some historians as...
