A New Direction
Today’s guest post is from Kirsty, who describes herself as a thirty-something wife and mother of one cheeky toddler. She blogs at damsonlane.com, and you can also find her on Facebook and Twitter....
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About Gaza
I lost my temper on Twitter the other week. It had been a long day on a delayed train. I was sat in a hotel room while DorkySon slept and DorkyDad was out at work, and I was whiling away the time...
View ArticleEnough Food If…
There is nothing more powerful than feeling like you are part of a movement Last night – standing outside Somerset House, with several brilliant bloggers tweeting away beside me, and Bill Nighy on...
View ArticleThe Power of the First Hour
When I started this blog, nearly two years ago, one of my very first posts was titled ‘Breast is Best, but there’s no need to keep shouting about it.’ I stand corrected. Sometimes, it’s absolutely...
View ArticleA Guest Post from Indonesia
Yesterday I wrote a post about Save the Children’s new campaign on breastfeeding. Today I’m absolutely thrilled to have a guest post on the blog from Tasya, an inspiring woman who works as the head of...
View ArticleA Global Vigil
Last June, horrified by what they were reading in the news, bloggers across the UK came together to highlight the atrocities taking place in Syria. Last September, we united again; shocked that...
View ArticleAlternative Government: The Bloggers’ Cabinet
I have been trying for weeks to write a long and serious post about our current Government. Not a morning passes when I don’t turn on the computer, see the latest headlines and literally want to puke...
View ArticleTake Action: Nestle and Danone
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the launch of Save the Children’s campaign on breastfeeding, and their report Superfood for Babies, which details some of the barriers to breastfeeding in the...
View ArticleVolunteer Champions
CSV, the UK’s Volunteering and Learning charity, have just launched a lovely campaign that I wanted to share with you. The campaign is called Volunteer Champions, and has been launched to celebrate...
View ArticleActivism not Slacktivism
My good friend Adam Ramsay had a piece in the Guardian the other day about student activism, putting forward his view that the main job of students is to save the world and have fun. Despite what many...
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