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Sarah Skilton
Sarah Skilton has extensive experience in homelessness, both in the UK and abroad including work with Palestinian refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Lebanon. In the UK she previously worked as a Homelessness Caseworker for many years. She is a regular freelance editor of the Housing Monthly Diary and Legal Update, both online at www.uk-housing.co.uk.
Festival Fever in South Wales
April 16th, 2009 by Sarah Skilton
Chris Stewart has written more than one book but he is perhaps best known for writing ‘Driving Over Lemons,’ the international bestseller and story of his family’s move to a ramshackle farm in Las Alpujarras, in Andalucia, Spain. In the sequel, ‘A Parrot in the Pepper Tree,’ Chris and Ana’s daughter, Chloë, teaches her …
Let The Children Live!
September 3rd, 2008 by Sarah Skilton
Father Peter Walters founded the UK registered charity Let The Children Live! following his 1982 trip to Colombia and the capital of violence, Bogota. Let The Children Live! provides funding for crucial services for street children. Misused and treated like vermin, Colombia’s street children often fall prey to the death squads paid to …
Massacre in Gaza
March 3rd, 2008 by Sarah Skilton
I live in Spain, and in Spain the papers are calling the latest violence in Gaza for what it is: another Israeli massacre. In the UK the media is terrified to call this monopoly on death by its proper name.
In January alone, the Israeli army killed over 80 people living in Gaza. On …
The Moral Case for GM Crops
December 2nd, 2007 by Sarah Skilton
Last week, Sir David King, the government’s chief science adviser, touted the “moral case” for GM technology in feeding the global population, which is due to exceed 9 billion by 2050.
The implication is that by refusing to eat GM products we are threatening the poor world with starvation. But this ignores the fact of a …
Army turns bank robbery into war zone
June 5th, 2007 by Sarah Skilton
The Palestinian civilians of the Naher al-Bared refugee camp, in North Lebanon, are under heavy bombardment. Fires are raging, smoke is billowing, and people are dying. Palestinian blood is drip dripping in Lebanon again; and life is leaving this world.
There are thousands of people including children and women still in the camp, who, according to …
Urban Regeneration: Who Really Benefits?
January 26th, 2007 by Sarah Skilton
Help Us Somebody: The Demolition of the Elderly (The London Press) is reviewed in this month’s edition of the Housing Monthly Diary (www.uk-housing.co.uk/HMD). It focuses on the demolition of prefab homes in Newport (Gwent) and Bristol, and the human cost of so-called urban regeneration. What follows is a quote from the Housing Monthly Diary review:
“The …
Israel’s War on Lebanon
July 27th, 2006 by Sarah Skilton
Soldiers of an army of occupation are legitimate targets for resistance fighters. It’s akin to conquistadors moaning about the dangerous natives to suggest otherwise. Hezbollah and Hamas’s capture of Israeli soldiers does not then excuse or explain the Israeli military’s latest attacks on civilian populations. Anyway Israel continues to ignore a clear …
Why two homes are sacred - for some
June 14th, 2006 by Sarah Skilton
The journalist, author, and environmental and political activist George Monbiot wrote for the Guardian on May 23: “Every purchase of a second house deprives someone else of a first one.” He was discussing the possibility that people seeking to buy second homes in desirable rural areas might have to pay an ‘impact tax’ and apply …
BNP membership list closed over race bias 
Alistair Darling visits LMH tenants & launches national scheme 
