COVID-19: the need for community and breaking free from the buffered self | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
Report, Community, Philosophy Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos Report, Community, Philosophy Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos

COVID-19: the need for community and breaking free from the buffered self | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos

The UK government’s refusal to timely adopt more stricter measures to combat the virus also makes it incumbent on all of us and our communities to protect ourselves. Taking the time to talk to an older person, helping a stranger, volunteering in the Church or an organization could look trivial to the action needed to deal with the crisis- but a thousand acts of random kindness… can be of enormous benefit to the whole of society.

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Levelling up Britain through distributism | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
Opinion, Policy, Philosophy, Solutions Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos Opinion, Policy, Philosophy, Solutions Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos

Levelling up Britain through distributism | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos

All powers should not rest in Whitehall or in the big cities, but within our local communities… Distributism gives the intellectual and policy backing to that famous phrase from Margaret Thatcher, a “property-owning democracy”. Home ownership levels are falling across Britain, a truly Distributist approach will see the building of aesthetic housing for the purpose of getting people into the business of owning a home.

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