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We administered the marshmallow test to my middle child when he was almost 3. He ate the marshmallow immediately, turned his big baby blues up to us, and begged for another chance.

We considered that maybe the fault wasn't with him but with our parenting.

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“Permacrisis means permabusiness.”

This is all nonprofits really. I was an employee of that world for over a decade and that’s one of the things that hit me as I left.

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There’s so much to do still. As a parent carer of a disabled young man, I can tell you that disability and carers charities still have masses to do, and would dearly love to get the kind of money Stonewall and other charities get (and then waste), not just from private donations, but the taxpayer. JKR had to step in to fund Beira’s Place, a rape crisis centre in Edinburgh, because the other one has been a “Kafkaesque” (word used by a judge in court) disaster. Charities fighting VAWAG could do with those funds, too. But disabled people and battered/raped women aren’t as glamorous, I guess.

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Once upon a long time ago, I was looking for office space and one came up in Camden, it had previously been let to a charity that had recently closed. "Which one?", we asked. "UK Anti-apartheid".

That must have been a lovely final board meeting; rare in charities.

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So it’s true that Ozempic might be the addiction cure then?

Any studies on opiate or just straight up heroin addiction?

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'My colleague Ross reported from summer in Karachi' - Lahore actually

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The Studies Show is one of the best currently.

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I too lost it over the Quorn eggs moment. Between that and Stuart's complete loss of cool in the previous episode, it feels like a podcast really hitting its stride.

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