Uncategorized Social Mobility in Crawley 29 Nov 201729 Nov 2017 Social mobility is a complex topic, so to summarise this post briefly: Crawley has been rated poorly on social mobility by a Government Commission, most of which comes down to…
Uncategorized Worth Less? 28 Nov 201726 Nov 2017 It is only looking back as an adult that it becomes clear just how much extra effort our teachers went through at school to help us not only succeed academically…
Uncategorized Save a life #GiveBlood 27 Nov 201727 Nov 2017 This afternoon was my 26th blood donation. Being a universal donor there's a permanent shortage of my blood type as they use O- blood in any situation where they don't…
Uncategorized Celebrating the New Towns 26 Nov 2017 Yesterday was 'The Big Seven-0', the culmination of our year-long series of events celebrating Crawley's Platinum Anniversary. It was great to see that so many people had braved the weather…
Uncategorized Crawley News 24 Column, Wednesday 22nd November 2017 23 Nov 201722 Nov 2017 So, was this the 'People's Budget' we were promised? Erm, no. Putting aside that growth is now the lowest it has been since the Tories took office, with economic indicators…
Uncategorized Crawley Observer Column, Wednesday 22nd November 2017 23 Nov 201721 Nov 2017 It used to be the case that high unemployment was the clearest sign the jobs market was broken, that was before the gig economy. Now, people are put on zero-hour…