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  • Cutting Love – 4th Quarterly

    Cutting Love – 4th Quarterly

    Every 3 months I send an update. In my 4th I focus on listing some links for resources and events, before a few thoughts on “cutting love.” You can sign up to receive this Quarterly Bulletin. First up, the culmination of a year’s efforts, today the UN publishes a paper I co-wrote on how Enterprise Zones can contribute… Read more

  • Explaining UK Parliament on Syria: Or, what did Stella say?

    The UK’s Parliament just voted to attack Daesh targets in Syria, which will involve bombing densely populated cities, and with no expressed plan for how this will enable decent people to retake control. The Kurdish forces arent anywhere near, the UK says it wont collaborate with the Syrian government, and the rebel groups are disparate… Read more

  • On Fests, Currency, Zones & The Police: Quarterly #3

    On Fests, Currency, Zones & The Police: Quarterly #3

    I’ve been looking back on how I accidentally became a festival organiser. It all started this time last year I looked out from a stately hall across emerald lawns to England’s largest lake. In the distance, I could see a group in a boat, rowing across the sparkling blue of Windermere. Young people, on a summer camp, doing one… Read more

  • Towards a Multi-Currency Eurozone

    The New Scientist magazine has published my views on the creation, in Greece ,of parallel currencies to the Euro, at both local and national levels. Unfortunately the mainstream financial press continue to mislead the public about the potential for a multi-currency system. Even the basics are poorly reported, such as how the major bailouts for… Read more

  • Quarterly Updates – sign up

    I have started producing quarterly updates… yep 4 emails a year on what Im doing. In each on Ill be linking to written outputs and forthcoming events. You can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/beciEb Here is the text of the latest update: I want to update you on the festival we are organising this summer on… Read more

  • An immigrant walks into a bar…

    An Eastern European Immigrant to the UK (aka: human) walks into a bar: “A key reason I came to the UK was because of education for my kids. I grew up in communist Hungary but the education was so much better than the values they are teaching now.” Me (slightly pissed human): Why do you say “but”? Why not “so”?… Read more

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