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One million voices
ByJohn MayI recently had the opportunity to spend time with Johan Vilhelm Eltvik, the Secretary General of the World YMCA. Over the last few months, the organisation has undertaken one of the largest pieces of direct research with young people ever undertaken. The aim was to hear their views and to better understand their needs, with…
Thirty years on…
ByJohn MayNever go back. That’s what they say; whoever ‘they’ may be. I’ve taken that advice for thirty years, but a few weeks ago I decided to go and visit the school where I spent my adolescence. I hadn’t visited since I left there a month before I turned eighteen and have never…
An evening on the other side…
ByJohn May…of London, that is. To Uxbridge, home of Brunel university, Fighter Command, the Chimes shopping centre, the world’s first electronic calculator and Greater London Middlesex West’s annual dinner for Queen’s Scouts. It took me a ridiculously long time to get there. Friday afternoon is never a good time to travel around the M25, but by…
Leading Questions
ByJohn MayLeading Questions – The Guardian’s Society supplement profiles me
A board meeting in the Big Apple
ByJohn MayToday I finally managed to attend a board meeting of the National Academy Foundation in New York. It was held in the board room of Sandy Weill’s office on a very high floor of the General Motors building, on the South East corner of Central Park. An extraordinary view from the windows – which nearly…
A reflection on events
ByJohn MayA reflection on events – 7th July 2005
