About 3 weeks ago, I got asked to deliver a series of talks on ‘having a positive attitude’ to different groups of level 1 and 2 learners at my local Further Education College. I had a great experience with the students I saw, but was struck by how needed the talks are for this generation [...]
Over the summer, I watched a play called ‘Fathers Inside’, centred on young fathers in prison attending a workshop to explore what fatherhood meant to them. The workshop was organised because they were either fathers or about to become fathers, and wanted to help them identify actions they were going to take when they got [...]
When the news about the MPs expense scandal broke months ago, the public uproar demonstrated I wasn’t the only one disappointment that the MPs we had voted in, had let us down in the way they had abused the system. Yes, the system was to blame for letting them get away with it for so [...]