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This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...Change Sue Tibballs chief Executive of the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) focuses on the role of women in sport and their representation. The WSF ensures that women are central to sport and not on the sidelines. Running for a Business Ed Warner is a city businessman who became part-time, non-executive chair of UK Athletics in 2007 and has had a pivotal role in...
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Globalisation and health
Society, Politics & Law

Globalisation and health

...changing world of global health. In the past there were relatively few organisations involved and there was a hard dividing line between the public and private spheres. Today there are many more players and the issues are much more complex. In our rapidly shrinking world, where modern technology and infrastructure are able to compress time and distance, it is ever more...
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Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...change. And it's not like one thing, politics, is bad, and the other, evidence, is good. No. I came around to seeing the world like our local politicians, you know? These are people who care about their communities. Their views on how to tackle problems might differ from mine, but the end goal was very similar. You have to be able to build a political consensus for change...
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First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?
Money & Business

First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?

...changes drastically and the amount to be paid no longer reflects the value of the goods to be supplied? To return to the recent headlines, Unilever, the owner of Marmite, produces a number of products overseas which are then brought to sale in the UK. If it costs Unilever, for example, 0.20 euros to produce in France a bar of soap and deliver it to a British supermarket...
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Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...change perceptions is not new in the business world – euphemistic terms such as ‘downsizing’ ‘rightsizing’ and ‘restructuring’ may not sound as ruthless as ‘cutting jobs’ but they spell trouble for employees nonetheless. Such language practices are not restricted to business. Words such as ‘collateral damage’ and ‘rendition’ have been coined or...
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Why is scientific research part of emergency response?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is scientific research part of emergency response?

...changed clinical practice and been used for humanitarian advocacy”. Javid Abdelmoneim, chair of trustees at MSF-UK, gave me the example of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB). “We've done research that has resulted in reducing the regimen for MDR TB from two years to nine months, and having had that adopted by the WHO as a global standard.” Vickie Hawkins,...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...changing? And what does debate around this tell us about the importance that’s accorded to spelling in society in general? Since the standardisation of the English language in the 18th century, and particularly since Samuel Johnson’s dictionary was published in 1755, incorrect spelling has carried a particular social stigma. Being able to spell is often seen as an...
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Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions
History & The Arts

Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions

...changed this. When William Hume of Belfast's Cruisers Cycling Club rode a pneumatic-tyred, chain-driven safety bicycle at the Queen's College sports on 18 May 1889, he was at first jeered by the onlookers and by other contestants, but Hume's easy victories over the Ordinary riders in the bicycle races signalled the beginning of a dramatic revolution in cycling in Ireland...
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