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Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...community sites. The entrepreneurs involved demonstrated highly effectual approaches. For example, a number of them described how they had started a business at home as it kept the costs at a level they could afford, and could afford to lose if the business went wrong. One respondent described how she and her partner moved their bookshop, which was once a physical shop,...
The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...Communication of the company’s aspirations via its Code is vital, both to suppliers and internally and this has manifested a new skill set and the requirement for specific training in social accountability. It has bought about the need for CSR and ET specialists and the need to raise awareness both internally and externally (for e.g. buyers, HR teams, managers’...
Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?
Society, Politics & Law

Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?

...communities in India. It is this group that Modi was wooing at Wembley and we can be sure that clips from the jamboree will be played in the build-up to future Indian elections. So, as the UK woos India, India is playing to its own electorate and interests. Even on British soil, there is a politics of trade, business and democracy – just not the UK’s, but its own....
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...