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Keep the Arc Lights Burning
The Government-apos-s latest publication on the so-called Oxford-Cambridge Arc is a very odd document.
It announces itself as an opportunity to work with communities and local partners, but only so as to develop a plan for growth.
Given the unsustainable level and form of growth already mooted for t...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 22 February 2021
The Arc and tranquillity
Writing about the English landscape in the 1950s, W.G. Hoskins remarked that the price of solitude was eternal vigilance. Seventy years later, solitude is a lost cause in most of the crowded south-east corner of England.
Paradoxically, however, and for various reasons, loneliness has increased.
To ...
Posted by Nigel Pearce on 19 February 2021
A Level Planning Field
If a society is to function smoothly and fairly, one necessity is an adequate level of health among the majority of its population.
For this reason, the medical profession, human and institutional, is of huge importance. It is part of the critical infrastructure of a nation.
And for this reason too,...
Posted by Nigel Pearce on 26 January 2021
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