Angela Bayley's Sites
Contact
How to get hold of books I have written or helped with
My other websites
Writing advice from others
Categories
- agriculture
- Angela Bailey/Bayley
- Contact
- Education
- Environment
- food
- Guest Posts
- Health
- Language
- Lilou Mace
- Miscellaneous
- music
- My books/commissions
- People I know (not directly connected with my writing)
- Pets and vets
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Reviews
- Reviews of others' books
- Scottish Parliament
- Self-help
- Special
- Synchrony Books
- Synchrony Sounds
- Tour of Europe 2011
- Videos
- Writing
- Writing advice
-
Recent Posts
- Biodiversity Stripes – A Journey from Green to Grey
- Issues which will decide my local election vote: Gaza twinning and fossil fuel divestment
- Please do whatever you can to defend the human rights of Palestinians (letter to my MP)
- Highly recommended reading: COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
- My response to devastating Batoka Gorge Dam scheme on Zambezi
Archives
- August 2022
- April 2022
- May 2021
- April 2020
- March 2020
- July 2019
- March 2019
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- May 2018
- February 2018
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- January 2017
- November 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- November 2015
- August 2015
- November 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
Top Clicks
- Angela Bailey/Bayley
- anorexia
- anti-capitalism
- art
- artists
- autobiography
- BBC
- BBC bias
- BBC Radio 4
- biography
- bulimia
- capitalism
- Chile
- Clare Galloway
- climate change
- David Erdal
- depression
- Desert Island Discs
- eating disorders
- economics
- education
- employment
- environmentalism
- ethical banking
- gaza
- General Augusto Pinochet
- genetically modified organisms
- ghostwriters
- ghostwriting
- global warming
- GM
- GMO
- human rights
- inequality
- Israel
- job-seeking
- job loss
- Josh Artmeier
- Kirsty Young
- law of attraction
- lexicon
- Lilou Mace
- music
- musicians
- neo-liberalism
- neoliberalism
- Occupy Edinburgh
- Palestine
- Politics
- positive thinking
- poverty
- publishing
- radical independence campaign
- rape
- RBS
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Rupert Murdoch
- Scottish independence
- Scottish independence referendum
- Self-help
- sexual abuse
- sexual assault
- SNP
- suicide
- The Spirit Level
- torture
- unemployment
- veterinarians
- veterinary profession
- vocabulary
- Vroni Holzmann
- words
- Writing
- zionism
- Zionists
Monthly Archives: May 2012
For the latest on anti-RBS campaigns…
[UPDATE: This photograph has appeared in this excellent piece by journalist Ian Fraser.] …Please see the Occupy Free Radicals blog!
BBC must allow the truth a voice: social mobility can only come from greater equality
BBC fails to invite relevant experts to discuss low social mobility I was pleased to hear the UK’s low social mobility discussed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, but annoyed that the people involved did not include either … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Andy Wightman, Antonia Swinson, BBC, BBC Radio4, Beyond the Corporation, Dabid Erdal, equality, Equality Trust, ethical banking, inequality, Kate Pickett, Lesley Riddoch, Richard Wilkinson, Rupert Murdoch, social justice, tax havens, The Spirit Level, Today Programme
Leave a comment
BBC’s Today programme attacks herbalism, promotes GM and contributes to the anti-science ‘new age of darkness’ it describes
I was shocked out of my morning dwalm by Today’s (BBC Radio4) crass handling of a report that US scientists were warning of the end of the age of enlightenment and the arrival of a new age of darkness, in … Continue reading
Letter to Scotsman: Get Scotmid to bank ethically and get RBS out of our schools!
[Update, 28 May 2012: The Scotsman has failed to publish this letter. I have sent it to the Herald.] Just sent this letter to the Scotsman. It will be interesting to see if it is published! Scotmid (the Scottish Midland … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged ethical banking, ethical banks, Move Your Money UK, Positive Money, RBS, RBS MoneySense, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotmid
3 Comments
MoneyNonsense: RBS, out of our schools! You are not a fit and proper institution to teach children about money.
[Update on Monday 4 June 2012: The RBS MoneySense reception in the Scottish Parliament has now taken place, but MSPs representing three political parties – Labour, the SNP and the Scottish Greens – have all expressed misgivings about RBS teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Scottish Parliament
Tagged education, ethical banking, Malcolm Chisholm, Marco Biagi, marketing, money, money sense, moneysense, Move Your Money, Move Your Money UK, Neil Findlay, Positive Money, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, schools, Scottish Green Party, Scottish Labour Party, Scottish National Party, Scottish Parliament, SNP
10 Comments
Ongoing correspondence with NatCen re ‘Necessities of Life’ survey.
Further to this email, I have received a reply. Please find it below, followed by my response. Email from NatCen representative Dear Mr Swanepoel, Thank you for participating in the ‘Necessities of Life’ study. We are also grateful for … Continue reading
I am a citizen, not a consumer.
If you are a market survey person and you have been referred to this page by someone you were surveying please go to the Credo. Read it, think about it, tell your employers about it, try to find a more … Continue reading
Posted in My books/commissions, Philosophy, Politics, Videos
Tagged active citizenship, anti-capitalism, anti-consumerism, anti-materialism, apathy, citizen not a consumer, citizen not consumer, consumer surveys, consumerism, Donald Trump, materialism, NatCen, neo-liberalism, neoliberalism, Occupy, Politics, protest, protest movement, protest movements, resistance movements, Rupert Murdoch
3 Comments
Scotmid and Co-operative Bank at loggerheads over rights of Canada’s First Nations people?
Here’s the next instalment in the campaign to get Scotmid to bank ethically. In response to a letter I sent the Scotmid CEO I received this reply. Here is my follow-up: Dear Mr Brodie Changing your bank Thank you for … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Politics
Tagged Alberta tar sands, Beaver Lake Cree, First Nations, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotmid
Leave a comment
Scotmid to raise issue of ethics with RBS but campaign continues
I have just received this response to my letter to Scotmid pointing out the contradiction between their ethical policies and their choice of bank (RBS): Dear Dr Swanepoel Thank you for your letter of 4 May 2012. As I explained … Continue reading
Scotmid’s hypocrisy: claiming to be ethical but banking with RBS!
I have just posted the following self-explanatory letter. If you like it please join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/GetScotmidToBankEthically. Also consider signing this petition! Mr John Brodie, Chief Executive Executive Office Scottish Midland Co-op Society Hillwood House 2 Harvest Drive NEWBRIDGE … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Politics
Tagged ethical banking, ethics, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotmid, The Co-Operative
Leave a comment
The BioWrite Blog 