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Date of birth: 30-11-1960 Mark Steel has performed as a stand-up since 1983. For Radio 4, he has written and performed four series of both The Mark Steel Solution and The Mark Steel Lecture, which transferred to BBC4. Mark has also hosted the BBC Radio 5 sports programme Extra Time, produced a weekly column for The Guardian and now does so for The Independent.Read More

Lets tackle loneliness together over the holidays 22 Dec 2020 Now Playing Related Articles Staying connected with friends and relatives has been more important than ever this year, especially as we head into the festive period. Since the onset of the pandemic, Premier League clubs have been calling on fans and those in their community to check in and ensure that those isolated have been supported. Earlier in the year, Jack Cork made phone calls to regulars at Burnley FC in ...

Sinton and QPR Trust deliver Christmas hampers Share article: ANDY Sinton and staff from QPR in the Community Trust recently took the time to deliver Christmas hampers to members of the club’s Extra Time Group. The hampers – which were kindly donated by Tesco – each contained sweet treats, biscuits, cake and a bottle of sparkling fruit juice. Sinton handed over hampers at the Extra Timers’ weekly ‘walk club’ in Stonebridge Park before also delivering some to the front doors of l...

This is the latest ride on the merry-go-round of legal shit-fuckery that penalises community groups who dare to face off in opposition to the rape and pillage of the environment. Less than a decade ago, voluntary community organisations were able to apply for Government financed grants, now no longer available, when challenging the likes of Councils, big-moneyed developers, international consortiums and Government agencies in respect of environmental concerns. In almost all but the most frivolo...

Budget 2021 will be delivered on Thursday 20 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “My focus continues to be on making sure spending is targeted at the areas and people that need it the most. “We will manage the books carefully including ensuring we are getting value for money ... 5 days ago Morena ki a tatau, Tena tatau i nga kaupapa hauora, E tuitui nei i a tatau i tēnei ata, Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. When we were re-elected with a clear mandate for change, our ...

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:31 am, December 21st, 2020 - 30 comments From a few days ago (it seems like an eternity), RNZ reported “Govt to pump almost $3 billion into its Covid-19 response after report identified failings”. There were several points I’d make about the border controls and generally with our border and the long slow years in constraining...

Europe still has community transmission and an inadequate covid response. I mean, Im all for lessening flights further due to climate change, also happy for NZ to be forced by covid into a more regenerative way of living, but those are different rationales. Cricklewood 2.2.1 Ive been thinking about international air travel, I like the idea of a progressive taxation system as you dont want to make it impossible for people to visit family etc so for example you get one free...

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:34 am, December 20th, 2020 - 22 comments New Zealand like most countries across the world in the last year, has gone deeper and deeper into public debt. It’s pretty clear that the New Zealand government’s response to economic crisis from lockdowns and global trade crashes by spending tonnes of debt money has been extremely effective. Yet for some, it’s simple: debts must always ...

"We have won so far because geographical isolation gave us about a week of decision-making space to lock down hard." The extra week was helpful – but much more important was being prepared to make that decision to lock-down hard. The Tory party would have been incapable of such a decision no matter how many extra weeks they were handed – and that was Eds point. A National government here would have (most likely) been unable to make that decision. Scomo looked like he wasnt capable of that ...

Population has always been a critical driver of events and prior to the Industrial Revolution we lived in a zero sum world, with energy and resources effectively limited to that which could be harvested from photosynthesis, one person’s gain was at the limit, always someone else’s loss. Very low density hunter gather populations could thrive (often quite nicely) because they rarely approached their local resource limits, but the invention of agriculture changed this dramatically. The next 1...