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Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...family sit on the edge of a boat on the beach, smiling - having arrived on the Greek island of Kos. ] Refugees from Iraq arrive on the Greek island of Kos The shipwrecks and deaths in 2015 led to a brief shift in public opinion around migration in the UK and across Europe. British newspapers which are routinely hostile to immigration depicted the deaths at sea as a...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...families – including pets – and claim to boost children’s self-esteem and transform the publishing industry. With a personalised version of Where's Wally, children search for their own faces. Instead of Cinderella’s castle, it is the child’s own castle. The global pandemic has seen the mushrooming of personalised books that help children cope with school...
From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...families fled their homelands, a mother of twin infants started her journey to seek a safer place. During the journey, a tragedy occurred. Behjat explores these events through a series of drawings in order to reflect on their meaning and make connections to a wider audience. From a Distance, was at the 5th floor of the Switch House at Tate Modern as Part of the Who Are...
Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...family forms and provide information on risk and protection that goes beyond a focus on opposite-sex sexual behaviour. -End of opinion piece- Why does it matter? The lack of relevant sex education in schools for LGBT youth means that these young people must rely on other sources of information, such as the internet or partners, for this, which can have implications for...
How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...family and friends live streaming the service. There may also be no family at a service if they themselves are ill. Although we often think of a good death in terms of how a person dies, culturally how the death is marked is another way of determining the value of a person’s death. We are still in challenging and changing times. We don’t know for sure the long-term...
Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...families are dispersed. One young unaccompanied minor was entrusted to another family by his mother, only to be abandoned. His mother paid a lot of money so he could escape after his two brothers were killed; she remains in Aleppo with his younger sister and disabled brother. He’s depressed and scared, and feels he has let his mother down. Finding another way While...
The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times
Society, Politics & Law

The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times

...family. Since 2003, in a decade and a half, Weetabix has gone from US and then British ownership to Chinese and Asian control. For the current owners, however, things have not turned out quite as anticipated. The initial attraction of Weetabix for the Bright Food Group was that it represented a potential vehicle for transforming Chinese breakfast habits. Breakfast cereals...
Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media
Society, Politics & Law

Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media

...family TV programmes such as prime-time sitcoms and reality shows, on billboards and bus shelters, or around sports fields where children and families watch their teams play. Governments could protect children much more effectively – if they were brave, and if the food industry, advertisers and social media platforms complied. In 2010 Ofcom (the UK’s communications...