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Cloves, Jeff

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Tell it like it is

The greatest pleasure in writing for PN has always been that its editors let me write about whatever catches my fancy. ...

Cowardy cowardy custard

I read, with uneasy and strongly personal interest, the discussions in September’s issue. ...

Resisting hate

There was a letter in October’s PN headlined: “Research on Reading”. I missed the capital letter and found I was reading about Reading and the impact of the cold war on this town. ...

Peace, politics, and the peloton

During the Second World War, BSA Cycles made folding bicycles for paratroopers. ...

Triumph of the will

Not many people know this: the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) is 75 this year. I only know because a woman stopped me in Stroud High Street and told me. ...

Show me the way to go home

When the Ministry of Defence decided that the only way of defending the UK from annexation by the Communist Hordes was to threaten to blast them to Kingdom Come with an atomic bomb it knew ...

The World is a Beautiful Place

My last column was in praise of our dear departed peace poet and friend, Adrian Mitchell. ...

Tell em I'm gone

When our friend Adrian died on 20 December 2008 a miracle occurred; the word PACIFIST appeared in newspaper headlines and on radio news programmes. ...

Veil of dreams

Back in September eight short video films were shown in Stroud to mark World Peace Day. Collectively the films tried to answer this question: what does it take to build peace? ...

Sweet dreams are made of this

In the current edition of the always interesting Fourth World Newsletter*, there is a page which brought me up short. ...