Alan White

United Kingdom

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Articles

John White obituary

Aug 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Alan White

My father, John White, who has died aged 104, was an English teacher in London. He became a humanist representative on the standing advisory council on religious education for the Inner London Education Authority (Ilea) in the late 1960s and early 70s, helping to ensure that humanism and non-religious views had a voice in the shaping of the syllabuses of the time.
Breaking boundaries - the inside story of cricket's ICEC report

Jul 25, 2024 | politicshome.com | Noa Hoffman |Alan White

22 min read A year ago, the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket published a bombshell report that exposed many of the game’s ills. Alan White asks why the sport decided to rip the shroud away from itself, and finds out what comes next England’s first Test Match against the West Indies in July 2020 was a strange match at a strange time.
We are more lonely online than ever before

Apr 16, 2024 | politicshome.com | Zoe Crowther |Alan White

4 min read Years ago, we millennials knew this to be true: social capital was in decline, communities were degrading, and we were getting lonelier. The key explanatory text was Bowling Alone (2000), by the academic Robert D Putnam. In the suburbs of America, Putnam argued, TV, work patterns, technology and other cultural changes were conspiring to create a society that simply didn’t take part in collective endeavours like visiting neighbours, organising politically, or going to church.