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  • Transforming Local Infrastructure Organisations – is it transforming and is it local? 15/05/2012
    Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill University and ARVAC National Management Committee) writing in a personal capacity reflects upon the latest intervention from the centre : ” The Transforming Local Infrastructure initiatives is one of those centrally led ideas which appears to be a contradiction of what it says – is it transformative and is it […]
  • AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS – MORE OF THE SAME OR IS IT ABOUT TO GET WORSE? 15/05/2012
    Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill Business School and a Management Committee member of ARVAC – writing in a personal capacity): ” The local election results in the England, Scotland and Wales at the start of the month appeared to confirm most of the predictions across the media – the Liberal Democrats lost (big time) – […]
  • WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS 01/05/2012
    As the excitement (generated by the media) over who will win in London increases and the media / political pundits obsess over the relative scores that Cameron or Miliband have to reach in order to justify their claims that they are “winning” a much more significant story is unfolding below the radar. There are two […]
  • CUTTING PUBLIC SPENDING IS STILL THE COALITION’S PRIORITY NOT CUTTING TAX AVOIDERS 18/04/2012
    There is a sense this past week when you have to blink to check that what you are reading is right. The headlines in the popular press have the Coalition in the UK (and the Conservative bit in particular) the champions of curbing tax avoiders. At the same time the last budget broadly favoured the […]
  • MAYORS, LOCALISM AND HAVING A VOICE: WHY THIS IS REALLY A MAKEOVER RATHR THAN A NEW START 12/04/2012
    There will be a number of local referenda this May on whether we should (in some of the larger cities) opt for an elected mayor. In some places (including Liverpool) there will be elections for a directly elected mayor. This is the “big idea” to transform local politics. It was introduced by New Labour as […]

Autograph APB

Autograph ABP is a charity, originally established in 1988 as an international, non-profit-making, photographic arts organisation that educates the public in photography, with a particular emphasis on addressing issues of cultural identity and human rights.  It was converted into a charity in 2007.  We produce our own programme of exhibitions, [...]

April 19th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: art, civil liberties, community, equality, immigration, refugee | Leave a comment

Exiled writers Ink.

Exiled writers Ink. Provides a platform for the work of artists living in exile in the UK and mainland of Europe through performance, publishing, and training activities.  We believe that the literature, art and culture of exile can provide a focus for communication and integration throughout society, and act as [...]

April 8th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: refugee | One comment

United Nations High Commission for Human Rights:

The UN refugee agency

 

http://www.unhcr.ch

April 8th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: immigration, refugee | Leave a comment
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