A quite momentous week, often for the most puzzling or troubling of reasons, e.g. USA’s downgrade to AA+ reliability (which panics 'the markets' - ever wondered just exactly what or who these 'markets' are and why they panic so easily?) juxtaposed with the highly local 2011 Tottenham ‘riots’, which if nothing else seems to show the relative fragility of community cohesion. The continued reduction in third sector sustainability, the lack of sustained growth in the economy and waves of redundancies in both the commercial and public sectors suggests a winter of discontent, whether of an employment relations nature or of community resilience.
Here's one recent perspective. Given the Tottenham events, a compelling video from Haringey about the effect of cuts on youth services, seems worryingly prescient.
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