Who’s On Your Team? Making Visible How We Help Each Other Succeed
This week, The Long View explores mentoring, and why everyone needs people who are by their side, and on their side 🙌🏽
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A Call to Humanity: Can We Protect One Another When the State Fails to Protect Us?
This week, The Long View is back to school, but can’t shake the after-effects of recent racist riots in the UK, and is reflecting on this question: what can ordinary people do to support and protect each other? [trigger warning: racism, Gaza, sexual violence]
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Migration | Law | Storytelling
Migration, Belonging and Finding Home
This week, I’ve flown “home” and reflected on nationality, belonging and what it means that many of us do not feel at home in the places where we live – and what we can do to change that. ✈️
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How to Tackle Really Big Challenges
⛰️This week, we consider how tackling a very big work challenge is a bit like climbing a Munro, and share some tips for making the impossible, possible ✊🏽
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The Importance of Doing Nothing
The Long View is back from holiday, with some reflections on why we all need breaks – big and small – and how that could work differently for each of us. The challenge of doing nothing I am famously bad at doing nothing – the Italian phrase “il dolce far niente” (the sweetness of doing…
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Is Optimism a Feeling, or an Action?
Today is Day 1 of a new political era for the UK, following a landslide victory by the Labour party last night, ending 14 years of Conservative party rule. This week, in the final days before this election, I joined some of my favourite people in the world at a conference hosted by Public Law…
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How to Stop Runaway Thoughts
This week, I’ve had a few conversations that were heavy with panic, worry and frustration. Here’s my strategy for accepting overthinking (and letting go). 🎈
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How to Think Differently About Migration
This week, for #WorldRefugeeDay 🌍 we discuss how to think differently about migration, take a look at the Labour Party manifesto and consider a simple rule for creating fair and just laws 🧡
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Law | Changemaking | History | Storytelling
Equality, Marriage, Love and Loving
This week, we consider marriage and racial equality – and reflect on why the personal is political – in honour of #LovingDay 🫱🏼🫲🏾 and #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈
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Teaching As a Revolutionary Act
This week, we consider teaching as a revolutionary act, what it would look like to challenge what we teach, where we teach and how we teach others ❤️
