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Evidence and illegal drugs – a toxic mix
Nick Clegg recently revealed a manifesto pledge to hand responsibility for drugs misuse policy from the Home Office to the Department of Health, calling the current policy idiotic because addiction should be treated as a health problem, not a criminal one. The aim is to bring policymaking closer to the evidence. Unfortunately, past experience in…
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Cathleen Revisited
Cathleen ni Houlihan is the female personification of Ireland. She is depicted as an old woman, with her four fields (the provinces of Ireland) taken from her and left homeless. Yeat’s one act play tells of how she persuaded young Irish men to go off and fight for Ireland and become martyrs, “many a child…
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Global Young Leaders Conference
Photogallery Report on conference Download Full Schedule GYLC VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Sunday 12th July I left Belfast on a mid morning flight to New York, my connecting flight to Washington was delayed by 4 hours so I arrived at the Global Young Leader’s Conference after all the introductions had been made. There were…