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There is indeed one thing the British got right in their several million terrace houses across Greater London built in the 1930s. They put the toilet in the right place – out the back where it belongs. Read more
As Vaclav Havel in The Power of the Powerless, (originally published in Czechoslovakia in October 1978) argued: power often stifles creativity and ideas, and generally it is only those on the margins that have the space, sometimes the eccentricity, to think radically. Read more
While the original focus of Paulo Friere’s educational philosophy in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, written some thirty-seven years ago, was the underclass within the two-thirds world, much of his approach is acutely relevant to what appears to be a new underclass in the affluent West in 2013. Read more
Advertising encouraging us to consume is everywhere, everyday, all the time, from waking to sleeping, from cradle to grave. Imagine our surprise to see an ad in London that said: “ask yourself if you are happy being described as a ‘consumer’? One definition of a ‘consumer’ is ‘someone who squanders or wastes.” Read more
Standing in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC last May was confronting and liberating. Having just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech, his words remain hauntingly relevant today in a world of conflict, xenophobia and intolerance. Read more