1,944 search results

The outgoing Prime Minister and his replacement: Gladstone makes way for Rosebery
History & The Arts

The outgoing Prime Minister and his replacement: Gladstone makes way for Rosebery

...communicating with his leading colleagues, and has received satisfactory assurances of their support in his new office. As it is understood, His Lordship will vacate his present post as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, two or three further changes must consequently take place in the Ministry, but these, although they have been talked over by those more immediately...
Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...community and the private sector”. A resilient crowded place has trusted relationships with government, other crowded places, and the public. It has access to accurate, contemporary threat information and has a means of translating this threat information into effective, proportionate protective security measures commensurate with the level of risk they face. Learning...
This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...community through projects such as Community Action: MK. So if MK is not a city, just what turns a town into one? The Department of Culture, Media and Sport were deliberately vague when defining the criteria for city status for the 2012 competition, but there are a few common assumptions. It has often been thought that the presence of an Anglican cathedral signifies city...
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...communicate? Is the common use of the eggplant or facepalm emoji something to worry about? Philip Seargeant explores this online visual language...The growth in popularity of emoji over the past six years has been startling. But not only are they emerging as a new pictorial ‘language’, there’s evidence they’re having an effect on everyday spoken and written...
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...community, the common use of resources like a marketplace or a well, and communal organisation. Fuchs has already made a significant contribution to the debate as to whether Twitter can be conceptualised as a public sphere but does not explicitly address these structural intersecting gendered, racial, and ethnic biases within Twitter and other social media platforms. He...
Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Nature & Environment

Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world

...communities. In the Limpopo river in South Africa and Mozambique, collaborations with farmers have re-emphasised the role of water in food security, health and economic and social well-being. [Map catchments from CABA website, focus on Bedford and Ouse partnership] A map of catchment partnerships in the UK In Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil, communities on the...
The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union
Society, Politics & Law

The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union

...communities stretched themselves to create the circumstances for a better Northern Ireland. In 1998 in Oslo, David Trimble in his Nobel Peace Prize recipient speech, acknowledged that the Northern Ireland ‘house’ that had been built since 1921 was strong but was not a warm place for all. His speech and his vision (a word he rarely used and personally disliked) was...
Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement

...community against another, and sadly this remains a legacy for Northern Ireland. In looking to potentially emulate the performance of wealthier regions. [Relative real GDP per capita (2019 prices)] Figure 2: Relative real GDP per capita (2019 prices) Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), 2022; regional gross domestic product, all ITL regions Northern Ireland...