Voluntary Sector
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A conversation about Play England’s future – an invitation to all
A conversation about Play England’s future – an invitation to all We are asking individuals and organisations to circulate this letter to your mailing lists and contacts. At Play England’s recent meeting entitled ‘Children’s Play – The Challenge Ahead’, a significant number of people agreed that now was the time to generate a wide-ranging discussion… Continue reading
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If Kids Company were a bank…
For the present, let me hold it to be the case that Kids Company did good work. I think it reasonable to make that assumption on these grounds: a study by the London School of Economics, authored by Prof Sandra Jovchelovitch, who, in the words of the Daily Telegraph, ‘heaped praise’ on Miss Batmanghelidjh. The… Continue reading
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The seductions of rubbish talk
It is perhaps a particular feat of our notionally advanced society that it has contrived to obliterate the possibility of communicating in a language which actually communicates what we wish to say, as distinct from what we think we must say. Adept are we at chucking words and sentences in one direction, and meaning and… Continue reading
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On Evidence. On the Political
I want to pursue the discussion about ‘evidence’ as it affects, or is said to affect, policy and funding decisions about play. I allow myself this indulgence in part because I suspect I am at least partially responsible for provoking comment on the subject; and of course Tim Gill is also thoroughly culpable in this… Continue reading
About Me
My name is Bernard Spiegal, I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
Bernard Spiegal 