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10 Tips to help you navigate life after bereavement
Sometimes known as "sadmin", the paperwork you have to go through after a loved one dies can be overwhelming. Simon Hodges shares advice for life after bereavement Losing a loved one is a difficult time in anyone’s life. When you’re dealing with loss, grief and shock it’s hard to make even the simplest decisions. But this is precisely when you will be faced with handling your loved one’s financial affairs, tax liabilities and legal paperwork.
New Hampshire State Report on Health and Environmental Effects of 5G and Wireless Radiation
New Hampshire Bombshell Report Documents Scientific Evidence That Questions the Safety of 5G 15 Recommendations Include Reducing Public Exposure to Wireless, Radiation Measurements, Reducing Radiation from Cell Phones and Protection of Trees and Bees On November 1, 2020, the New Hampshire Commission to Study the Environmental and Health Effects of Evolving 5G Technology has released its final report to New Hampshire Governor Christopher T. Sununu, Speaker of the House Stephen J.
How to culture jam a populist in four easy steps
Supporter of Donald Trump at a rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona. Credit: Wikimedia/ Gage Skidmore. The whole world’s eyes are on Washington today, and not in a good way. As Venezuelans, we’re looking North with more trepidation than most, even though—in fairness—the panic over Trump-as-a-northern-Hugo Chávez is premature. A politician is to be judged by what they do in office, not by what they say before they get there.
Sharing stories in a broken culture
In late-April 2017 the French Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron stunned supporters of Marine Le Pen, his opponent, by directly engaging with them on a picket line. Macron handed the microphone to union members whilst arguing that closing borders would do nothing positive for the economy, and might well harm it. This was a rare act of engagement in western politics, where debates are characterised by the frothing of deeply divided sides.
If the Left wants to win again, it must learn the art of storytelling
‘Take Back Control’ – it was the slogan wot won it. Those three words offered everything and promised nothing. They appealed to the desire for dignity and autonomy, but allowed voters to project their own grievances and remedies. The slogan appealed to the precariat as powerfully as it did to the aristocracy, because it suggested that order could be (re)established in an age of dizzying instability.
Unlocking the transformative potential of storytelling
When people connect to political issues through personal stories, they see them in a different way. They don’t just see democracy in the abstract, they see ‘my democracy.’ The transformative potential of storytelling is written into the fabric of our lives. “Daddy, do you think that they are better than us? My answer was, there is no ‘they’, just as there is no ‘us’, not in this sense.
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