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Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...public interest There are many different ways to manage fishing quota. A 2017 report looks at 12 EU countries and how their fishing industries perform across 12 objectives to ensure that the system of fishing rights is good for fishers and for society. The results reveal that the UK system has low performance on many objectives. In general, the UK preserves a status quo...
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...public revulsion at the treatment of British people who had come from the Caribbean half a century ago. The prime minister, who introduced many of those policies, remains in post. In distancing himself from Rudd, her replacement Sajid Javid expressed an intention to focus on making Britain’s immigration system not “hostile” but “compliant”. To make it more...
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a Progressive Media Profession (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013). Anthony, Scott. ‘Imperialism and Internationalism: The British Documentary Movement and the Legacy of the Empire Marketing Board’, in Lee Grieveson and Colin McCabe (ed.), Empire and Film London: Palgrave...
The debate on the origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

The debate on the origins of the First World War

...publications and documents were made available to prove Germany’s innocence and the responsibility of others. Arguments were advanced which highlighted Russia’s and France’s responsibility for the outbreak of the war, for example, or which stressed that Britain could have played a more active role in preventing the escalation of the July Crisis. In the interwar...
Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out
Society, Politics & Law

Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out

...public spaces and abandoned buildings in Athens, are on the rise – as is the policing of such spaces. The occupation of public buildings is formally illegal under Greek Law. These “illegal” settlements are tolerated by authorities to some extent; it serves their purpose to conceal the state’s stunted response behind the vital support offered by local and...
A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...public response on Twitter to the self-reported misogynoir experiences of four Black women in technology. Dr Timnit Gebru, April Christiana Curley, Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks were the four Black women whose cases we analysed, as they had previously worked at Google, Facebook and Pinterest. Our preliminary findings suggest that a lexical approach is insufficient...
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...public and other state assisted schools preoccupies the Spanish electorate at the start of each new school year. [The Blessed Virgin Mary, painted on a tabernacle door in New York] Now just another Mary? Even this year in late August and early September, with the elections in Catalunya imminent and the plight of the political refugees trying to reach Europe dominating the...
Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...publicity bias (Ruva & Coy, 2020), racial bias (Curley et al, 2022b), rape myth bias (Dinos et al, 2014), and social media influence (Taylor & Tarrant, 2019), all of which can lead to a lack of impartiality and a failure to consider the evidence presented in court. The piloting of juryless trials for rape and attempted rape cases has the potential to reduce bias in the...