The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 37
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Hello, you.
It’s another beautiful Sunday in Shropshire. Hence, I’ll try to put as many equally beautiful, positive and uplifting links and recommendations into this week’s Sunday Supplement
It’s difficult, though, to ignore or look away from the terrible things that are happening around the world, here included. So I’ll include a few stories about that because I feel I have to, but I promise I’m not here to encourage doomscrolling.
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Something to listen to while you read
'Even with his global platform, Benito’s true magic is intimacy: He wants you to fall in love with Puerto Rico. We scream with him: “Yo soy de P fuckin’ R!” Whether you are you aren’t, your heart won’t know the difference'
What went right this week
China’s emissions tipped into reverse, scientists had a breast cancer breakthrough, and Europe’s best cycling city was revealed plus more good news from the good people at Positive News
OK then, here we go …
This is amazing! Quick, cheap, effective and beneficial. Surely Shrewsbury and Telford are two prime contenders to follow Coventry's brilliant lead?
Drop the euphemisms and stop sugarcoating poverty
Thrilled that the first ever Official Organist of the Royal Albert Hall is the amazing (and deeply lovely) Anna Lapwood!
This is a playlist
The Popemobile that Francis used when he visited the West Bank is being converted into a mobile health clinic to treat Palestinian children in Gaza
ESOL teachers sound alarm over Starmer’s language proposals
Pioneering 1919 Birmingham cinema listed at Grade II (brilliant! now can they save the Electric on Station Street?)
Is there a link between suppressed anger and the women’s health crisis?
Now is the time to stand with refugees
Here's what Bruce Springsteen had to say about Trump in Manchester
Radical Traditional: Folk music for Spring
Mrs Dalloway at 100 (I’ve never read it! Bought a copy this week, from an actual bookshop)
Notable Sandwiches Special: 1909 Flashback Edition
Ten unique mental health projects helping people in the UK
‘LSD? Been there, done that’: the Grateful Dead’s 60 years of drugs, epic noodling and obsessive fans
More of the good stuff in just a moment, but first …
On Hello You the Shropshire podcast this past week:
‘What was the pain that she was trying to numb?’
Jane Mackenzie’s daughter Amy started drinking alcohol, along with many of her peers, in her very early teens. By the time she was a university student, she was addicted to alcohol.
Jane doesn’t want other young people to go through what Amy did. She doesn’t want other parents to know the pain she’s known, either. Find out how she tries to make sure that doesn’t happen, in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.
Stuff. And things.
Mental Health Awareness Week, some questions for you, and more
A Stiperstones soundscape
Almost an hour of the peaceful sounds of nature in the Shropshire countryside
You won’t find this anywhere else. Intelligent, informed, progressive and sometimes quirky conversation for and about Shropshire, enjoyed around the world
Compassionate storytelling, trying to make the world a better place
About stuff, and things: mental health and wellbeing, history and heritage, faith and belief, work and play … all told through people’s authentic stories. Want more?
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Things can’t only get better
In today’s episode of ‘No Shit, Sherlock’: Wealthy Britons avoiding more tax than thought
Landmark report finds major flaws in the Cass Review
Secrets of the Thames: mudlarking treasures showcase history of London’s river and the people who scour its banks
The word 'fun' is used in this article in a way I've only occasionally seen it used before, i.e. to replace words like 'stupid', 'intrusive' and 'alarming'
Cats at the Grand Canyon and more found Kodachrome photos from the 1960s
How to sustain public service journalism
It's the oldest play in the book: tell people their pain is someone else’s fault, then promise to punish them for it
Are mindfulness and environmentalism linked?
From the ruins of Coventry, its old and new cathedrals provide a backdrop for reconciliation through art and worship
An elegy for the pencil
If you read one thing this week, make it this
UK food shops report ‘massive’ rise in pensioner shoplifting: Kingdom Services boss says retailers seeing ‘different sort of shoplifter’ with more theft by people ‘who just can’t afford food’
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Final Thought, à la Jerry Springer
Everything looks worse in the dark, you know - Moominmama, The Moomins and the Great Flood
Thank you for being there
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