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The November Full Moon - Scorpio, Testing Your Soul, Testing You

This November full moon is balanced by the sun, as all moon cycles are, for the sun and the moon in their own way temper and reflect the qualities of each other: the coin which symbolises your abundance bears the feminine qualities of Mother Moon on the one side of it and the masculine power […]
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Philippine Desperation and Media Scrutiny

The world media has descended on the Philippines to record the misery of the islanders after the destructive storm of the weekend. While it is right that we should know of a tragedy affecting thousands of people who are homeless and hungry, it must seem almost offensive to those who suffer to see well fed […]
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Remembering the Philippines, and the War Dead Too

Mass death is a tragedy and significant too: it is ironic that, at a time when many in the world remember the men and women who have died in service to their country, the Philippines lose many thousands of their countrymen overnight through Typhoon Haiyan. There is no such thing as coincidence.
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The Fairness of a Living Wage

It is a sign of the present unfairness in society that the principle of paying a living wage for employees can only, it seems, be achieved through incentivising their employers – as highlighted by the Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband. What has happened to the idea of corporate responsibility?
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Hallowe'en, a Time to Remember Your Past

Hallowe'en, or All Hallows' Eve, signified, in pagan times, the turning point from summer to winter, and it was a celebration of the long days of light and the gifts of abundance of harvest just gone, and a preparation for the months of human hibernation to come. It was important, too, for the belief of […]
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Changing Clocks, and The Illusion of Time

It is remarkable how the illusion that is time has been demonstrated in the few days since British summer time ended and our clocks went back an hour.
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The Importance of a Great Storm

As a great storm hovers over much of Britain, many people will remember tales of tempests of the past, such as the hurricane which hit the Welsh Valleys in 1913 with 160 miles per hour winds, or the even greater storm of 1703 which caused more damage and loss of life in the south than […]
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The Truth about US Surveillance

US surveillance on rival countries is centre stage at the moment, as Angela Merkel and other EU leaders express outrage at the idea that their conversations have been intercepted by American eavesdroppers, but the truth, reluctantly but increasingly acknowledged, is that many developed countries do what they can to learn what others are planning, or […]
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The Tragedy that is Child Abduction - Lessons from Maria

Until recently, few people realised the extent of the tragedy that is child abduction.  A few names are remembered, like Madeleine McCann and Ben Needham, but it was the reaction to the finding of little Maria, believed to have been taken by a Roma couple, that revealed how many children may have been stolen from […]
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