Hip to the beat
Pride after a fall. I am recuperating at home under Thomas’s care. The book I began a few months ago is on hold. I have little to distract me from …
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Ongoing, massive Ttrump
Maybe Trump TV will troll Biden nightly and present endless “I was robbed,” conspiracy theories on the 2020 election. Alternatively, reports suggest Trump will start Trump 2024 on inauguration …
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The Mint is listening to… Sophie Adamson 21, Third Year Economics and Philosophy
Before coming to university, I wanted to study a degree which could teach me as much as possible about the world. In sixth form, my friends and I had witnessed …
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Someone’s got to do it
It seems that actually only fools, horses and men work. Perhaps it’s time to recruit elsewhere. Frances Coppola looks at the “Situations Vacant”. A woman’s work, we are told, is …
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Rein in men
Women’s reality is often invisible in economic analysis and that’s not hard to see. And the lack of women in economics too is clear, even outside the mainstream. The …
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Central Eating
Pam Warhurst is an impressive community leader with a CBE for her efforts. She has been a council leader, chaired the Forestry Commission and has sat on other influential boards. …
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Defunding the past
The time has come to pucker up and give Trump a kiss. Our collective sanity is being assailed by an unrelenting locust-swarm media and the groaning end of a socioeconomic …
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A shocking trolley
A misplaced piece of supermarket equipment starts a dreadful carry on. I was not going to go for the lockdown fad of starting a new project but I have decided …
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Building forward is better
It now seems like a long time since the ritual Thursday clapping and the peace that allowed us to hear the birds. As the tragedy of suffering and death grew …
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Learning from the pandemic
Frances Coppola warns that looking back is not the best way to move forward During the Cold War, there was a genre of disaster fiction along the lines of “life …
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