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Huhne on civil rights
The Independent and BBC cover Chris Huhne's speech at Demos yesterday on civil liberties. You can read his speech in full here.
from : samhintonsmith
16th February 2006
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Deathly Silence
In response to the setting up of the cross-party Dying Well group, which will focus on the improved provision and equal distribution of end-of-life care, I have written a comment piece for the Guardian arguing that as long as we don't talk more openly about death and dying it is impossible for us to enable a good death. In order for us to be able to articulate our specific needs when we die and make positive choices about how we do so, we need to feel comfortable talking about death more...
from : juliahuber
12th January 2006
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Professionalism with Nicky Campbell
Children's professionals are being hindered by a culture of 'risk aversion', according to another article in Community Care, illustrated by this picture of two surly-looking tykes. Our new report The Leadership Imperative was also covered in Children Now this week and last week.BBC Radio Five Live Breakfast also ran a piece yesterday on the report. Listen to Hannah L go head-to-head with Nicky Campbell here.
from : samhintonsmith
8th December 2005
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Why thirtysomethings don't get the Tories
Boys Smith says:"The Conservatives can speak to Generation Gap?s concerns not by abandoning support for the free market (which Generation Gap share), nor by retreating from the need for radical public sector or welfare state reform (which is also accepted), but by clearly, consistently and passionately making the case for a fairer Britain. Unless the Tory party can convince Generation Gap that they are like them, hard-working, fair people, interested in others and not out to get the weak, it...
from : samhintonsmith
20th November 2005
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Golden oldies
How are attitudes towards old age changing? And what are the implications for society? We explored these issues and more in The New Old and Eternal Youths. Julia, who co-authored both pamphlets, took part in a discussion on Radio Four's You and Yours this afternoon about changing attitudes to ageing. You can listen again here.
from : samhintonsmith
26th October 2005
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The public panic button
Bird flu. Terrorism. The MMR vaccine. vCJD. Major scares about public safety have become commonplace. Yet according to a recent report the world is safer now than it was in the 1960s. So are we living in an age of panic?Tom will be on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze this evening talking about doomsday scenarios and the role government should play in helping to prepare the public for possible threats without inducing mass panic.
from : samhintonsmith
26th October 2005
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Secrets Laid Bare
Sean Dodson mentions our Wide Open pamphlet in a great piece in today's Guardian.
from : paulmiller
8th September 2005
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Science festivities
The sun is shining in Dublin. Trinity College is full of a strange mixture of scientists, TV crews and school children - all here for for the BA Festival of ScienceWe're launching a new report by James, Jack and Brian Wynne called The Public Value of Science which was covered in the Guardian and Telegraph this morning as well as an opinion piece in the FT (sub required) by James. Lord Robert Winston has written the foreword and is going to talk about some of the ideas in his speech this...
from : paulmiller
5th September 2005
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Beam me up, Scotty
A centre of excellence at the University of Glasgow is going to enable Scotland to compete with the United States in terms of space research, according to the Evening Times. Demos' Masters of the Universe gets a mention.
from : samhintonsmith
4th August 2005
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New New Old
Julia was on BBC London's Jono Coleman show this afternoon talking about The New Old and Eternal Youths. The pamphlets are also mentioned in an article in today's Independent (unavailable online) on the power of the silver pound.
from : samhintonsmith
4th August 2005
