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‘The deaf community has a long, painful history of persecution.’
3rd July 2020

‘The deaf community has a long, painful history of persecution.’

by Kate Kernoff
Busily sculpting my foolish old life
3rd July 2020

Busily sculpting my foolish old life

by Anne M Jones
‘The tendency to over-analyse, to ruminate through long days and sleepless nights, is not helpful.’
26th June 2020

‘The tendency to over-analyse, to ruminate through long days and sleepless nights, is not helpful.’

by Helen Johnson
‘For me, being black is being afraid to leave a shop without buying anything.’
26th June 2020

‘For me, being black is being afraid to leave a shop without buying anything.’

by Bonnie Gibberd
‘The religious offer is not a consolation at all, but a call to ever greater vulnerability.’
26th June 2020

‘The religious offer is not a consolation at all, but a call to ever greater vulnerability.’

by Jonathan Wooding
‘In the end human rights are about people being treated and feeling like people who matter.’ (Qf&p)
26th June 2020

‘In the end human rights are about people being treated and feeling like people who matter.’ (Qf&p)

by Katrina McCrea
‘Our fundamental act of idolatry is to divide things for our own benefit.’
26th June 2020

‘Our fundamental act of idolatry is to divide things for our own benefit.’

by Paul Hodgkin
Poem: Hope heals*
26th June 2020

Poem: Hope heals*

by the children of Dorking Meeting
‘We are not wholly separate lifeforms; we are intrinsically bound to the planet itself.’
19th June 2020

‘We are not wholly separate lifeforms; we are intrinsically bound to the planet itself.’

by Clement Jewitt
‘This is an opportune moment, a turning point, when things have to change.’
19th June 2020

‘This is an opportune moment, a turning point, when things have to change.’

by Jim Corrigall
As led
19th June 2020

As led

by RV Bailey
‘We’re not yet well, but no longer ill enough to lie still and wait for recovery.’
19th June 2020

‘We’re not yet well, but no longer ill enough to lie still and wait for recovery.’

by Vivien Ray
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