The face of Brexit: still not pretty
Three years since leaving the EU, with huge damages to the UK economy, Viv Griffiths charts how Sussex Bylines has...
Read moreDetailsViv Griffiths is a retired teacher and academic, specialising in gender and education research. Over the years, she’s also worked as an actor, gardener, librarian and wholefood shop partner. She is Emeritus Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Viv is now a volunteer gardener in Brighton's Preston Park, a Friend of Hollingbury and Burstead Woods and singer with Brighton Voices. A regular writer for Sussex Bylines, she is also a member of the editorial team.
Three years since leaving the EU, with huge damages to the UK economy, Viv Griffiths charts how Sussex Bylines has...
Read moreDetailsFollowing Jacinda Ardern’s sudden resignation, we evaluate her leadership style, contrasting it favourably with her male counterparts
Read moreDetailsIt was hard to stay optimistic about women’s rights in 2022. 2023 must be better
Read moreDetailsIs Suella Braverman, chief architect of a scheme to send migrants to Rwanda, really fit to be in charge of...
Read moreDetailsNew faster/cheaper rail links to everywhere in Europe are making train travel a more environmentally friendly alternative to flying
Read moreDetailsThis article goes inside a local choir, Renaissance Choir, to look at choral singing, harmony and community
Read moreDetailsVivienne Griffiths describes her memories of being a student at Sussex University and living in Brighton guest houses in the...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s Rwandan scheme reveals a worrying outsourcing of the delivery of our entire asylum system to another state
Read moreDetailsVivienne Griffiths writes a preview of Brighton's exciting new The Dance Space, which aims to bring dance to all, before...
Read moreDetailsOver 100 people attended the singing workshop in aid of Ukraine, and were later joined by local soloists in an...
Read moreDetailsRefugees trying to reach the UK face a hostile environment that’s highly bureaucratic and which turns some asylum seekers into...
Read moreDetailsVivienne Griffiths examines the UK government’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis
Read moreDetailsUnequal vaccination rates between rich and poor countries continue to hamper attempts to control Covid-19 rates globally, reports Vivienne Griffiths
Read moreDetailsSussex Bylines spoke to Gill Taylor from Friends of Hollingbury and Burstead Woods about their 30 years of looking after...
Read moreDetailsRecent scandals have rocked Westminster. We examine the impact on the Conservative party and their leader Boris Johnson
Read moreDetailsThe Johnson government can't shake off evidence of Tory sleaze
Read moreDetailsMore Covid cases and fewer people wearing masks. What will it take for the government to move to Plan B?
Read moreDetailsA route for students to learn without the fees - that’s Free University Brighton which lives up to its motto...
Read moreDetailsGovernment bungling and the hostile approach of the Home Office have hindered attempts to help desperate Afghan refugees in the...
Read moreDetailsFrom shabby student digs in the 1960s to her hilltop view over Brighton now, Vivienne Griffiths describes what Sussex means...
Read moreDetailsWhen Joni Mitchell’s album Blue came out, Vivienne Griffiths, herself then an aspiring folk singer, had not long returned to...
Read moreDetailsHas cronyism finally had its comeuppance? The fall of disgraced Health Secretary Matt Hancock and its repercussions for Johnson's government
Read moreDetailsParents believe their children will be worse off when their state primary becomes an academy. And research suggests they have...
Read moreDetailsAndy Jeavons, Preston Park garden manager, runs a team of gardening volunteers. His patch, the Rockery in Brighton is now...
Read moreDetailsWhile the wealthy friends of government ministers are making millions from the Covid contracts handed to them, nurses get offered...
Read moreDetailsAs IWD approaches, Viv Griffiths remembers two of her aunts: Florence Rourke and Kay Williams, who had a profound influence...
Read moreDetailsCommunity worker Kim Shamash speaks about her involvement in the burgeoning of the Brighton and Hove Mutual Aid network
Read moreDetailsA civil disobedience movement has emerged in Myanmar, attracting thousands of people to daily protest marches against the military coup
Read moreDetailsAll travellers to the UK must now show proof of a negative Covid-19 test and quarantine for up to 10...
Read moreDetailsVivienne Griffiths turns the spotlight on the government’s decisions on re-opening schools
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