Openness

Please see below recent freedom-related change.

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February 2019

• 2018 was the 13th successive year that freedom declined around the world, according to Freedom House. Political rights and civil liberties were curbed in 68 countries in 2018, with the worst repression coming in Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Venezuela.

January 2019

Please see recent education-related change below.

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• Halcyon Education Headlines
• What Counts? - Education

January 2019

Please see below selected recent listening-related change.

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• Halcyon Listening Headlines
• What's Changing? - Therapy

December 2018

Please see below selected recent charity-related change.

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Please see below selected recent change-related content about change itself.

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December 2018

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspired by others' little secret acts of kindness, PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

In the last months of his life, a physically weakened Christopher Hitchens travelled to the Texas Freethought Convention and while there, an eight-year-old girl asked Hitchens what books she should consider reading. Intrigued, Hitchens spent 15 minutes chatting with the youngster and sketching out a reading list (below). His last words to her? "Lots of love...remember the love bit..."

Sad to read of the passing of Colin Wilson, a truly open-minded polymath, whose books, exhaustive range of interests, freedom of expression and seemingly boundless productivity I long found inspiring.

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