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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...Troubles’ of this place. The archive follows the steps into the rooms and talks and negotiations in which peace becomes a possibility and then a reality. As I write, the World headlines are the stories of the Hell of Gaza, and the constant references to war involving Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Iran and the bombs of the US; stories also of ceasefires and broken...
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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...troubled families’ approach which loses its primary focus of protecting victims and holding perpetrators to account. It is also woefully inadequate in meeting the challenges of the collective nature of domestic violence/HBV where codes of ‘honour’ are used to justify, collude or inflict abuse by multiple perpetrators in extended BME families and communities. It is...
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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...trouble a servant with any personal requests without a long prefatory apology. My family were in the country in the summer of 1825, when he was staying at my house in Pall Mall East. A friend or two had met him at dinner, and I had walked part of the way home with one of them. When I returned, I tapped at his chamber-door to bid him good night. He was sitting at the open...
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Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Society, Politics & Law

Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences

...trouble their political leaders provided a sufficiently Hard Brexit option remains on the table. But that’s been rendered highly uncertain by the Withdrawal Agreement struck with the EU on 8 December, to ensure ‘sufficient progress’ and enable talks to start on post-membership arrangements. That agreement effectively commits the UK to stay in the customs union and...
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What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...troubling part of the settlement scheme is its provisions on criminality checks. They do not currently comply with EU case law applying Article 28, Directive 2004/38 which protects EU citizens against expulsion. The Court of Justice of the EU states that having a criminal background should not automatically mean someone is a threat to public security – one of the ways...
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Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...the government hopes it will soon be matched by rising pay, especially lower down the scale. But that combination fifty years ago, quickly leapfrogged into a wage-price spiral, heralding a decade of stagnation. Without the social safety-net that then protected households from absolute poverty, even a short phase of rising living costs will cause long-lasting trouble....
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...much trouble already to solve this issue of temperature. But I think the result of our study is that we have compelling arguments to be successful in those CO2 emission predictions because of the ocean. I mean it’s an additional argument to climate change to be ambitious and successful at COP 21 in Paris. RH: Jean-Pierre Gattuso, thank you very much. ...
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Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...trouble to join a trade union and be a safety representative to paid time off work for training if they are a safety representative to a rest break of at least 20 minutes if they work more than six hours at a stretch and to an annual period of paid leave. to take care of their own health and safety and that of people who may be affected by what they do (or do not do) to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs