β€˜The LUSH Guide to Knot Wrap’ is a radical manifesto and it’s going to change Christmas

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When my copy of ‘The LUSH Guide to Knot Wrap’ dropped through my letterbox, I didn’t expect it to entirely change my outlook on Christmas. Weird sentence, isn’t it? But somehow this book managed it. The LUSH Guide to Knot Wrap Did you know that every year, the UK throws away around 227,000 miles of single-use wrapping paper? That is enough bleached, dyed and sellotaped trash to stretch from your living room, all the way to the moon. We buy this crap paper, which is made from felled trees, and it’s covered in metallic inks, making it unrecyclable. We wrap all…

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Radical Listening sessions in Newcastle aim to tear down the walls dividing us

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Majority has been hosting “Radical Listening, Radical Persuasion” sessions in Newcastle in recent months. And ahead of the latest session, on 24 June, we spoke to co-presenters Steph Langford and Hugo Fearnley to find out more about their efforts to unite people across different communities by finding common ground between them. What does ‘radical listening’ actually mean? Radical listening, Fearnley explained, is about connecting with other people: in a different way so that you understand where they’re coming from a little bit more before you even open your mouth and try and have a conversation, debate, argument Few people, he said,…

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