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In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing
Nature & Environment

In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing

...become an EU member re-joining the EUs Common Fisheries Policy?...The UK’s fishing industry has been long in decline, certainly a process predating EU membership. The outcome of the Cod Wars was a deal with Iceland that hit some of the major fishing communities hard. While the industry is now only a shadow of its former self, nonetheless in an island country such as the...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...become so ubiquitous that ‘facepalm’ itself is starting to be used as a form of reflexive interjection in writing. So how about emoji? Is the same thing likely to happen with them? At the moment the evidence is slight. But there are indications that it’s beginning, at least in certain contexts. Unlike alphabetic writing systems, which allow an infinite number of...
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Article 20 mins
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...become an organ donor and haven’t recorded an opt out decision. They remain at the centre of the decision-making process about organ donation and are asked to confirm consent for each specific organ and tissue donation. The sharing of donor families’ lived experience To share what it is like to go through this process, we made a film about organ donation with two...
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Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...becoming a nightmare: Fanny Imlay committed suicide; Shelley’s wife drowned herself in the Serpentine; Mary and Shelley married and had a third baby, another Clara, in 1817, but she died the following year. Their grief was compounded when their precious William died of malaria in 1819. In his jotting book Percy wrote: My dearest M. wherefore hast thou gone And left me...
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Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...become the most valuable asset on Earth while people are increasingly going without food and shelter. How can we design for people to have a home, while also regenerating the living systems on which we depend?...Like other wealthy countries, the UK now has swelling numbers of people whose needs for the basics – food and shelter – are not being met. The proportion of...
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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...become worse if we ‘open’ the country too soon. I am not sure how this can be controlled. It seems that ignorance is everywhere, and it is especially hard to fight ignorance if political leaders agree with it. Kaustubh: There has also been substantial criticism of the official reporting of numbers in various countries. For example, in the UK the official figures only...
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One refugee's story: A long, risky journey
Society, Politics & Law

One refugee's story: A long, risky journey

...student in Lebanon. He regularly went back to visit his family in Jobar, not far from the Syrian capital Damascus. Life was good. Then came the war. The bitter fighting between the Syrian army and the opposition intensified. Jobar became a battleground. “It [was] very dangerous. [There were] a lot of bomb, bomb, bomb,” he says. Soon neighborhood men started to...
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The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...students began attending university for free when the new academic year began in March 2016. They represented about half the students from the poorest 50% of Chilean households.” Sense of urgency The need for a gear change in momentum towards all seven of the targets in SDG4 on education is stressed throughout the report. Our world leaders need to demonstrate their...
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