It might be preaching to the converted, but I think one has a duty to publicise the facts about the effects human beings are having on their environment, even if other people couldn’t care less. Young people, hopefully, do care – it is their future at stake. The following appeared recently in the New Scientist: …
There is a debate in the United States as to where home ownership rates are heading, and whether Millennials — people who came of age around 2000 — will get into the housing market the way generations before them did. The percentage of people younger than age 35 who are homeowners went from 42 percent …
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Poles in Britain are frightened. Since the UK voted to leave the EU, British nationalists have felt free to spew their xenophobic bile against immigrants, particularly those from Poland. The far-right accuses the roughly 800,000 Poles living there of “stealing British jobs, scarfing up (mis-using) British benefits and committing crimes against Britons”. It’s now scattering …
The British Department of Energy and Climate Change has been closed in a series of sweeping changes to the government unveiled by the new prime minister, Theresa May. Its functions, which include representing the UK at international climate talks, responsibility for meeting carbon targets and levying subsidies for green energy, have been transferred to a …
It is said that children need tough love to grow up as balanced, disciplined adults. The love has to be tempered by toughness when it comes to discipline. And toughness always needs to be tempered by love. There ought to be BA’s in Parenting, much more useful than BA’s in Business Studies. Parenting is …
