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Following on from Tom Watson MP’s release of a Code for Participation for Civil Servants online, I thought I would turn it into a Wordle.

Since the Statement of Principles is free of waffle and padding, it seems to work quite well. Click through for the full size version.

Do you remember the lost tribe shooting arrows at a low flying aircraft? It turns out that the picture was not a lost tribe at all - it was a tribe known for around a century.

On May 30th it was:

Aerial images prove existence of remote Amazon tribe

Deep in the Amazon jungle, one of the Brazil’s last uncontacted indigenous tribes has been photographed from the air, to prove its existence.

This morning the Observer has a story:

Tribal guardian admits the Amazon Indians’ existence was already known, but he hoped the publicity would lift the threat of logging

The story about the NHS Co-payments policy - that you lose the opportunity for NHS treatment once you pay for extra drugs privately - is all over the BBC News (used to be News 24 and I keep forgetting the name) Sunday Papers review this morning.

This story is in The Times (for about the 8th time in a fortnight) being driven by certain Doctors with private practices and (obviously) a good PR consultant.

They have concerned the accounts of patients such as Colette Mills, Debbie Hirst, Jack Hose, Linda O’Boyle and - this morning - John Burrell, Sandra Baker.

Yesterday I did my (in theory) biennial half day helping out at Nottinghan’s Kwon Sale - which is a sale of “nearly new things for children” that has been running at St John’s Theological College in Bramcote, Nottingham - raising funds for a hospital in Uganda.

The KWON sale charges commission of a third on any goods sold, and raises several thousand pounds each time. It has been running for at least 2 decades.

This time there were 50 helpers, 80 sellers and several hundred customers through the door during the two hours the sale was open.

There is a competition for a hilltop sculpture to be a focus or the new “town” at Ebbsfleet. David Keen reflects on the five competition entrants, and wonders whether a giant silicone sculpture of Jordan’s breasts would be a better symbol of the national soul. Surely three hills are better than one, anyway?

Simon Barrow has been thinking about the tensions within the Roman Catholic Church between a traditional vision of authority, and a desire to engage with human rights and the modern world.