I just came across this shocking article about the cost of Cherie Blair’s hair maintenance.

The article claims that during the month leading up to the 2005 general election, the wife of the British Prime Minister spent £275 per day on personal hairstyling, mounting up to a total bill of £7,700.

I find it utterly sickening and irresponsible that the wife of the Labour party leader should squander wads of cash on hairspray and grooming while half of the world’s population lives below the poverty line. Read more…

VEGETARIANISM & CONSCIOUSNESS
I consider the degree to which vegetarianism has been embraced by a culture to be an excellent indicator of the extent of its evolution. Refusing to kill animals for food demonstrates the ethical progress and humanity of a civilisation.

In India, vegetarian food is widely considered to be the best - a mark of the great advance of consciousness that took place here many centuries ago. Read more…

After 15 years of the humble magazine for “spirituality and social change”, New Renaissance has launched a blog site: www.newren.org

New Renaissance takes a look at the world around us and imagines a future based on spiritual ethics and ecological practices. Writers and reviewers are encouraged to get involved.

“I was on the train and there was a sudden jolt forward … There was a really hard banging from the carriage next door to us after the explosion - that’s where it happened. There was a fire beside me. I saw flames outside on the window of my carriage … I saw bodies. I think some people may have died.”
- Sarah Reid, the tube at Liverpool Street

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Free Range have made another great activist Flash movie, “Store Wars”. This time about chemical vegetables and the Organic Rebellion. Read more…