Eileen Peck, Author at Healthy Life Essex

March 08, 2019

There is an alternative and it’s better!

I’m taking a little sidestep away from my search for all the good news which is happening worldwide but which we rarely hear about. I recently came across a term new to me: QED (Quod Erat Demonstrandum) which means something on the lines of ‘What’s the bottom line? In one sentence!’ and that left me

March 06, 2019

Do we have a culture in the UK?

My search for good news took an unexpected turn this week when a friend asked me: ‘A comment is often made by certain groups of people that immigrants are destroying our culture. I certainly wouldn’t agree with that but actually, my question would be ‘Has the UK got its own culture?’ I actually don’t think

February 20, 2019

Is Britain Broken?

Is Britain Broken? Inside my head rest a few phrases which seem important and which pop up now and again for me to think about when the time is right. While dealing with my sadness and anger about Brexit, up popped a much-quoted David Cameron phrase ‘Britain is Broken’ which he used to describe the

January 31, 2019

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life My thinking and reading for the past couple of years – since Brexit and Trump really – trying to fathom just what’s going on in our crazy, chaotic world has led me through fear and anxiety and has brought many surprises, but my biggest surprise of all

December 12, 2018

New Economics

“Capital is the lifeblood that flows through the body politic of all societies. We see capitalism spreading out sometimes as a trickle and other times as a flood into every nook and cranny of the inhabited world.” David Harvey, British academic, professor of anthropology and geography at the City University of New York Although I

December 04, 2018

A happier, greener Christmas

Let’s make it a happier, greener, more considerate Christmas. You might have noticed that Christmas is on its way?! I guess we all have mixed feelings about the ‘jolly season’. For Christians it is a day of real celebration. For those with families there are memories to be treasured and fun to be had. For

November 19, 2018

Veganism

VEGANISM – A good news story! Veganism certainly seems to be a good news story; a movement that is creating a positive change in our society. Although, if I relied on mainstream media, I could be forgiven for thinking that all is gloom and doom in our world; but I constantly hear about what people

November 09, 2018

Capitalism drives the increase in road traffic.

Cars, cars and ever more cars! Because my gradual understanding of globalised capitalism 21st Century style with its free markets, corporate power and need for growth is a bit ‘abstract’ I’ve been looking for examples of how it impacts on our everyday lives. Living, as I do, in a congested corner of S E England,

November 02, 2018

Excessive material consumption

Why are we encouraged to buy ever more stuff? I’ve come to see that I can best understand why excessive material consumption – the ‘American Dream’ lifestyle – has taken centre stage in our recent history by getting to grips with just what ‘capitalism’ is all about. I’m a great fan of the BBC, and

October 31, 2018

The overlooked part of the Adam Smith story

Is this what the ‘Father of Capitalism’ intended? Following on from my articles on Capitalism and Globalisation, I feel the need to further explore Adam Smith’s legacy, particularly in the context of climate change and the approach governments across the world have to reducing its impact: or perhaps more accurately, their lack of a coherent

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