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A Morning Thought @ 1454

The Refugee Council And The Miracle Of The Loaves And The Fishes

Matt Treacy ✒ Sometimes the NGO sector would give you the impression that whatever client group they have decided to adopt – often when said client group does not even know the NGO exists – would be starving on the side of the road if it were not for their “advocacy.”Of course, that is not what NGOs do. They rarely practically assist people, well not to any great extent at least in comparison to

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Let Us At Least Be CuriousFormer primary teacher probed over historic beating allegations'This Is on You!' Beto Interrupts Abbott Press Conference on Texas MassacreMary Lou

The Countess Of Aylesbury

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ There has been a Gaol situated in Aylesbury since 1810. The present prison was built in 1847as part of the early Victorian minor prison reforms and became an adult women’s jail in 1890 changing to becoming a girl’s borstal for a time in 1930. It is its time as a women’s prison which is of interest to us and, in particular one inmate.Constance Gore Booth was born in Buckingham

A Morning Thought @ 1453

What If The Dream Comes True?

Dixie Elliot ✒ A Short Story.He paced the length of the dark cell, from window to steel door and back again. Orange light filtered in through the concrete pillars barring the window. The lights from the exercise yard kept total blackness at bay as the lights in the cells had been switched off for the night by a screw.He was a blanket man, so called because of the form of protest he had joined the

A Morning Thought @ 1452

Two Enemies, One Fight: Climate Disaster And Frightful Energy Bills

People And Nature ☭ Two clouds darken the sky. A close-up one: gas and electricity bills have shot up since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and millions of families are struggling to pay. And a bigger, darker, higher one: the climate disaster, and politicians’ refusal to tackle it.Simon Pirani16-May-2022Ultimately, both these threats have a single cause: fossil fuels and the systems of wealth

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The Spy Posts

Brendan Curran ✒ with a poem from his expansive body of work. The Spy Posts ( just a dream?)It was terrible for them to put them there, and terrible to take them all away,to hide what they did to us, spying on us, every single dayThey watched our every moment, even putting our children to their bedThey watched us having a picnic, burying our loved ones when they were dead♞♜♝They spied on us going