Everything you know is wrong

We all make assumptions. Often we don’t even know we are making them. We think that the world is a certain way and that things are as they are. We have been taught things. We have absorbed other things. Yesterday in class we watched a couple of TED talks from a few years ago. They Read More …

Gordon Brown at TED

I’d like to hear Gordon Brown speak like this more often.  The biggest criticism of him is that he doesn’t communicate well and that he has no vision.  If this is anything to go by then he has plenty vision and his communication skills aren’t bad either.  But then foreign policy doesn’t seem to win Read More …

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

You might have noticed the little ad on the right for ‘bloggers unite for human rights’.  Today is the day when bloggers all over the world will share their thoughts and highlight situations where human rights are violated. I had hoped to write something well researched but just haven’t had the time.  And I guess Read More …