John Bird

2 days ago | sourceglobalresearch.com | John Bird

The story of the consulting market in Europe can’t be told by looking at this market in isolation. The geopolitical shifts of 2024 and 2025 that have created a climate of uncertainty in Europe have been driven as much by the actions of the new US administration as decisions closer to home. With the US becoming more unpredictable, sectors like manufacturing may take a direct hit from trade policy changes, and there could be a ripple of other impacts.

2 days ago | bigissue.com | John Bird

Skip to header Skip to main content Don’t miss this offer - 8 issues for just £9.99 Why not convert the natural and deeply human desire to help into something more useful than a food parcel? The only time I met with the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, it was to discuss poverty, and replacing ‘handouts’ with ‘hand-ups’.

1 week ago | nassp.org | John Bird

Spring in a beach town is beautiful and a bit of a nightmare for school attendance. At Keansburg High School in Keansburg, NJ, where chronic absenteeism peaked at 40% post-pandemic, the warming weather often signals a drop in engagement. With its beach, boardwalk, and amusement park, our town is known as the gateway to the Jersey Shore. But rather than accept the spring slide, we’ve developed a multi-tiered approach to keep our students showing up, learning, and feeling like they matter.

1 week ago | bigissue.com | John Bird

It seems enough Americans, through the lens of the bizarre Donald trump, are pissed off with the world – which includes us Apparently if you are a European jam and marmalade maker, up until Trump’s intervention you’d only pay a 4% tariff to sell into the United States; yet if you were a US jam or marmalade maker selling into Europe you’d pay around 60% tariff – etc, etc. As presented by Trump, the eye-watering amount America pays to trade in the world, if true, does make you think.

2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | John Bird

We are at a crossroads as capitalism potentially reduces us to little more than stimulators of machines Last week, when due in parliament at a very early hour, I stayed over in a hotel in Fulham, South-West London. This was where, as a 10-year-old, after the slums of Notting Hill and a Catholic orphanage, I arrived with my family to live in a block of council flats. It was here that I realised that I was a little proletariat.