tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post8158278562241743681..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Oxfam bookshop, Market HarboroughJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-91818830186204155332011-02-07T09:13:36.643+00:002011-02-07T09:13:36.643+00:00Only students and a few gullible (cynical ?) pop s...Only students and a few gullible (cynical ?) pop stars whose careers are on the rocks now even pretend to have illusions about Oxfam.<br /><br /> For further reading, Katherine Quarmby`s New Statesman article `How Oxfam is Failing Africa` is very useful.Battenburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-92128660290157943372010-12-31T07:48:25.476+00:002010-12-31T07:48:25.476+00:00Following a similar hollowing out around my area, ...Following a similar hollowing out around my area, the nearest bookshop is a s/hand business, whose owner tells me that more than half his business is internet sales. But he only continues because (a) he likes doing the job and (b) he has other income and his wife has a very good job. Meanwhile a retired librarian friend helps Oxfam and also browses other charity shops for gold nuggets that he can and does sell on...dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.com