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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...communities. [Two people on a motor scooter riding through a flooded urban street at night with illuminated shopfronts] Two people on a motor scooter riding through a flooded urban street at night with illuminated shopfronts I’ve been researching these complex, varied and often surprising organisations for several decades, during which the business landscape has gone...
The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa
Society, Politics & Law

The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa

...Community. South Africans were called on to play a key role in a number of areas. Two stand out: conflict management in, for example, Burundi, DRC, Lesotho, Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe. And as the “bridge-builder” between the West and Africa. It also twice took a seat on the United Nations Security Council and was part of initiatives such as the India Brazil South Africa...
Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...communities that have gone through civil war. For Bryce, though, suppression of speech means suppression of thought. These ideas are behind ‘Don’t speak to the Brits, just pretend they don’t exist’ (you can hear Bryce read and explain the poem in this YouTube video from 2019). We see ‘The Brits’ of the title, and the bullets from Bloody Sunday, only briefly....
Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...communities. More recently, since 2015 the UK National Union of Students has been running two campaigns, ‘Why is my curriculum white’ and #LiberateMyDegree, to examine the issue of decolonisation. ‘Decolonising the university’ So, what does it mean to decolonise a university? A university is a complicated ecosystem including a history, an identity, and a sense of...
A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...community. During the 1970s, the title supposedly became the codename for an alleged campaign to undermine the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Prompted, apparently, by fears that Wilson was a Soviet agent and that he’d been placed in office after the KGB had poisoned the previous Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell. Elements within the British secret service are alleged to have...
How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...community and engagement though of course, the details vary at different ages, in different cultures. One thing that stands out is that this FACE principle seems to apply right across the life course. The updated World Happiness Report reflects on many of the same issues and it is great to see so much convergence of academic thought as schools, governments and NGOs start...
57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two

...communities. The suggestion of an open box for people to write in whatever gender term they use themselves would be one solution to such issues. However a list of categories probably lends itself more easily to data analysis. This could potentially be useful if Facebook were able to release figures of the numbers of people who are identifying in each way for the reasons...
Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...Communications Act 2003, which criminalises offensive speech. Equally, perhaps he might care to clarify how exactly the further expansion of mass surveillance in the UK is supposed stop known terrorists committing murder. After all, we already have mass surveillance in the UK, as a cursory search for “Snowden”, “Tempora”, “OpticNerve” or “DRIPA” will make...