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The problem with gadgets
Before she died, the popular and influential columnist Rose Hacker was working on several articles, which readers have requested we publish.Here she wonders whether our lives have become too dependent on poorly designed technology
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How Rose Hacker's column began... Click here
The war and peace within us all - I WANT to send a Christmas message to all my readers, especially friends from the past who have written wonderful letters to me. > more
Our socialist dreams are fading - ARGUMENTS rage about where to build so-called “afford able housing”. For many people trying to find a first home...>more
Lessons of second childhood - AS though it was meant to be, I started a new life in my second century. > more
What happened to our dream? - I HAVE lived in a variety of housing and learned the importance of decent homes in people’s lives. I never experienced personally... > more
Beware the prophets of profit - NOW I’m really frightened… In one week last month I attended three funerals. > more
Rich rewards in visual memories - I AM now nearly 18 months old. It is as if last March I was given a second century to start all over again. > more
Children are fighting for an education - IF I write often about what I see as the tragedy of Margaret Thatcher’s abolishing the Greater London Council and Inner... > more
As women, we still have to work for greater equality - AT a mere 100 years old, it has had great impact. None the less, it ought to have had more. > more
Ten questions for Labour’s deputy leader candidates - REGULAR junk mail is bad enough but my recycling bin’s overflowing with discarded letters from would-be...>more
The safety of human lives should come before profit - LAST August 6 I was asked to speak at the Hiroshima Day memorial ceremony in Tavistock Square... > more
Our world is run by men who behave like little boys - THE noble art of losing face may sometime save the human race… > more
Today’s refugees are our class-mates- I CONSIDER myself classless. I grew up in a world where everybody “knew their place”.
£20 to a good cause from a man who preached hatred - WHEN I first started this column I wondered if anybody outside my family, friends and immediate... > more
We can create utopia. So why do we lack the will? - OH to be in England now that April’s there.” What a miracle life is, whether human, animal or plant. At this... > more
There’s nobody we ever meet we can’t learn from - I LEARN from everybody, young and old, including people others dismiss. > more
We are forgetting our advances in child care - ON my 101st birthday, last Saturday, my great-grand-daughter informed me she’ll be four in July, then she’s... > more
Professional politicians are ruining democracy - IT was thrilling for me to live through the 20th century and witness the birth of our system of government by... > more
‘I could go on forever’ says Rose, 101 - AT 100 years old, she is the world’s oldest correspondent, with a fortnightly column in the New Journal expounding... > more
Children of all abilities need to mix and match - THE London County Council was set up in 1903, three years before my birth. It was abolished in 1964... > more
A backward step in mental health care - LAST week’s news of a new Mental Health Act, to allow people with mental illness to be locked up even with no history... > more
Poverty should have been history by now - CHRISTMAS giving is over, it’s time to count the cost. As usual, shopkeepers panicked the public was not buying... > more
Money makes the world go morally bankrupt - WHILE I may bemoan the disappearance of the creativity I so value from London’s schools and the consequent... > more
Pupils need to play and to act in order to learn - TO a child, experiencing the sight of a tree bursting into leaf, the smell of a flower blooming, the sound... > more
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