Looking at the history of gender development, it’s unfoldment and education throughout the 20th century, this talk looks at social, state, cultural and media responsibility for the ongoing problems of violence against women.

This event looks at the causes of gender violence and challenges the traditional, commonly held belief that its all about ‘power and control’, which I show isn’t the case as these are symptoms, or effects, of the issue, not the cause.

There is a positive side to Codex, and its VERY positive, believe it or not.
With the looming potential horror that is the Codex Alimentarius Commissions increasing power and influence, we are forced to make some choices. We can oppose and challenge, which we should, but it shouldn’t be the only thing we do! Since what [...]

The Codex Solutions day was great with a good turnout filling the polytunnel at Hulme Community Garden Centre in Manchester. Some folks there already knew LOTS about Codex, and for others, it was all news.
So many people had stuff to add to what I had to say, most of the afternoon was spent on the [...]

In this post we’ll look briefly at what Codex is, but this is just groundwork for the next post on the subject which will be what you can, and should, do about it….
What is it?
Codex Alimentarius…quite a mouthful…in more ways than one.
Many of you will have heard of this by now, and some of you [...]

One thing I love about the sound and language work I do is the sheer comedy of what is staring us in our faces, for example, I love the comedy of people saying humans are not oppressed or enslaved, yet we wear collar, cuffs and a tie to work (if male.)
There are many examples like [...]

Its a sign we see all the time.
We use this word to mean ‘way in.’ But they way we pronounce this word and the way we think of it isn’t what that word means, nor is it how it is pronounced
This Science of Sound and Language is much more that just breaking words down, its [...]

This Science of Sound and Language is much more that just breaking words down, its also about understanding the power of context, emphasis and reference and the effect they can have.
Simply by changing the context of a particular word, we can utterly change its meaning. In this case, it is very easy to see what [...]

I recently started part time work supporting people with mental health needs.
It was my first time back in the workplace for 2 years, having taken time out to work on developing events. It got to the stage where I simply had to work, since I wasn’t making enough from events, which is fair enough since [...]

How often do we hear demands for ‘Justice’ in the world?
Whatever happened to ‘Just-ness?’  Aren’t the stories of the Kings and Queens and Knights of old those of being ‘Just’?
To be ‘just’ is one of the highest accolades of behaviour one can have. It implies not only fairness,  understanding, and the weighting of circumstance [...]