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Camden New Journal - ROSE HACKER - The oldest columnist in the world
Published: 8 May 2008
 
Facts according to Queen Victoria

My mother had told me stories about doctors bringing babies in black bags or storks delivering them…`


MY mother and Queen Victoria had one thing in common. Neither was capable of believing in lesbianism. > more
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The only war worth waging is that on unnecessary conflicts?
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Who do they think they represent?
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Profit motive of the phoney sceinces
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The sad state of things to come
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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
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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
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I LEARN from everybody, young and old, including people others dismiss. > more

We are forgetting our advances in child care
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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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