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Drug trade funds terrorism | Nicola Marven
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Drug trade funds terrorism. January 31, 2013. A European report published today outlines increased co-operation between terrorist groups and global drug traffickers. The report, jointly published by Europol and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), warns of risks to European security as a result of the illicit drug industry. Can mothers afford to work? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. News and comm...
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Self-Appointed Detectives | Nicola Marven
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March 18, 2013. D’ya hear the one about the MP’s expenses? No I hadn’t either until a journalist uncovered it. There may be long-coated fox-faced hacks, but we’re all clear that journalists perform a public service. If Heather Brooke hadn’t been so bloody-minded and dogged about asking for the details of MPs’ expenses, they’d still be wasting our taxpayers’ money on porn and taxis. Can mothers afford to work? Leaning In for Thatcher →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. It's a bit ranty.
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Come clean. Post a #nomakeupselfie | Nicola Marven
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Come clean. Post a #nomakeupselfie. March 29, 2014. Women across the world are coming clean and putting photos of themselves online without make-up, and unlike Katy Perry. This time it’s voluntary. If you really want to get under the skin of modern thinking, try watching this makeup tutorial. And listening attentively to the different voices inside you. Whether or not you like it, you will hear a voice say: Ohhhh, that’s how you do it! Shhh… Don’t worry, it’s ok it’s not Photoshop! Yes, deep down, this #...
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Can mothers afford to work? | Nicola Marven
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Can mothers afford to work? March 9, 2013. This article was published in Lambeth Weekender. But I’ve included here as well just because I made an accompanying infographic to include which I thought you might want to see! Lambeth is a microcosm of the situation of working mums nationally, and as anybody working, or possibly not working, knows, times are tough, writes Nicola Marven. Added to the rising costs of childcare (in Lambeth a fulltime childminder works out at 42 per day on average and a nursery pl...
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Leaning In for Thatcher | Nicola Marven
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Leaning In for Thatcher. April 16, 2013. I didn’t like her policies but I admire the fact that she got so far as a woman, she showed anything is possible. This seems to be the standard diplomatic line used by Thatcher’s critics, some of whom mingled in the midst of a very subdued crowd at her funeral on Wednesday. Every single female prime ministerial candidate will now be compared to her, including the latest possible candidate Theresa May. She responds: You know, it’s really funny, because if you’d ask...
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Bombs and bravery | Nicola Marven
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October 1, 2016. I went to a special screening of a 100 year old silent film, ‘The Battle of the Somme’. Last night. It’s doing a tour of the UK with full orchestra. It shows men fighting in World War One. The scene reminded me of a quote from a Syrian volunteer. He is part of The White Helmets. Tags: Battle of the Somme. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email. Author, Scr...
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How to lose a Marathon | Nicola Marven
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How to lose a Marathon. April 28, 2015. This is not a post about running. It is a post about pain. It took me 6 hours 32 minutes and 59 seconds to complete this year’s London Marathon. Pain forces you to focus. Knowing that your pain is going to continue for the foreseeable future forced my mind into a strange state of calm. It felt like I was accepting that I was slowly dying. There is a kind of peace in death. Around Kilometre 10 of the 42km Marathon distance, I struggled to accept that I was NOT going...
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Sun, Sea and Refugees | Nicola Marven
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Sun, Sea and Refugees. May 10, 2016. I see Greece is in trouble again. If it’s not money trouble, it’s these pesky migrants cluttering up the place. So I’d like to paint a sympathetic picture of the place I visited for the first time exactly one month ago. You can judge whether I manage it. I considered its next-door neighbour Turkey, but my timing was all off. That week would be when they’d start receiving migrants. But if I had no choice but to cross this in perilous conditions, if I were looking for t...
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I went to a special screening of a 100 year old silent film, ‘The Battle of the Somme’, last night. It’s doing a tour of the UK with full orchestra. It shows […]. Read Article →. 2016 has been quite a year for the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. All the stuff that had happened was in the collective mind of the team from St Albans’ Emmaus as […]. Read Article →. Sun, Sea and Refugees. Read Article →. Welcome to the New Jungle, Part 2: Peace begins with a smile. October 1, 2015. Read Article →. September 29, 2015.
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Fearing women: A Facebook riposte | Nicola Marven
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Fearing women: A Facebook riposte. February 1, 2014. I put up a quote on my FB wall by the wonderful Mohadesa Najumi. And it shirked one particular FB friend. I told him I didn’t agree and to leave it. He didn’t leave it. I warned him I would deconstruct his comments if he persisted. He persisted. So I wrote this frenzied rant in about half-hour. Enjoy. Perhaps you might like to wonder why this is. Perhaps you might like to wonder why, in the majority of countries, women earn between 70-90 per cent o...
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