Like it or loath it, the ice bucket challenge was a massive success for Motor Neuron Disease (MND) associations. As of September, the challenge had raised over £6million for the UK MND Association and a cool $100million for the American ALS Association.
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IndyRef 2014
In what follows, the best and the brightest of IANS editors, staff writers and contributors discuss why they intend to vote the way they do. We then finish off our discussion with a short consideration of the alternative: devo plus.
Read More“Money is evil” To be honest….
Leon is a tour guide at the lodge where I camp in between village visits, and where I have stayed for the last two or three weeks (I shudder to think of the bill coming my way). When I am there, Leon comes to visit in the morning.
Read MoreFirst Impressions of the Horrors I Did Expect
I just started fieldwork with the San (sometimes referred to as "Bushmen", known through the film “The Gods must be crazy”,countless other documentaries and my recent post) in Tsumkwe, Namibia. During Apartheid the area used to be the designated “Bushmanland”.
Read MoreThe Alarming Banality of Racism
As my train rolls through the Scottish borders and into England’s green and pleasant land, I read news of a furore surrounding a so-called plot by ‘extremist Islamists’ to ‘hijack’ the school curriculum in Birmingham.
Read MoreKýprioi Aganaktisménoi: Marking Three Years Since A Movement Nobody Heard About
It was a period of general upheaval and anger around the shores of the Mediterranean. The “Arab Spring” was taking hold on the southern bank, while on the northern bank, from Spain and Catalonia to Greece, mass demonstrations rocked capital cities for months.
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