Blogs

  • Age of insecurity: Robots taking our jobs

    Age of insecurity: Robots taking our jobs

    8th May 2015

    A conversation with a very able and experienced primary school teacher got me thinking about schools…

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  • Age of insecurity: Help one another

    Age of insecurity: Help one another

    2nd April 2015

    Many years ago I asked my younger daughter, then at primary school, what she thought about…

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  • Island stirs into life after long winter

    Island stirs into life after long winter

    24th March 2015

    Over the winter months the RSPB staff and volunteers have been busy doing all those jobs…

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  • Our Ages of Insecurity

    Our Ages of Insecurity

    6th February 2015

    Many years ago, I asked my younger daughter, then at primary school, what she thought about…

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  • New column: Age of insecurity

    New column: Age of insecurity

    18th December 2014

    The enemy of insecurity is confidence, a commodity in short supply these days. Prospects of secure,…

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  • Marooned on Coquet Island

    Marooned on Coquet Island

    3rd December 2014

    “Worse things happen at sea” A rather unexpected turn of events this autumn resulted in site…

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  • Our age of insecurity – part 3

    Our age of insecurity – part 3

    21st October 2014

    The six and a half million carers, of all ages, who look after relatives and others,…

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  • Our age of insecurity – part 2

    Our age of insecurity – part 2

    12th September 2014

    There are no easy answers to our present condition. By definition insecurity is a personal feeling….

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  • Our age of insecurity

    Our age of insecurity

    18th July 2014

    Few things sadden former teachers more than the present state of our schools.  In an age…

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  • Almost 24 hours on Coquet Island…

    Almost 24 hours on Coquet Island…

    24th June 2014

     One mile off Amble, braving the might of the North Sea is RSPB Coquet Island, home…

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