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Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...educated guess at who she was. I have been told she is not even mentioned in the school textbooks in relation to studying the Good Friday Agreement and The Northern Ireland Peace Process. Her name has not been forgotten everywhere of course. Ireland and Northern Ireland still talk about her often and the people I meet there still recall the enormous impact she had on...
What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Society, Politics & Law

What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?

...education and public services. Being transgender can also greatly affect job prospects, sometimes leaving sex work the only option available for them to earn some kind of income. Efforts are being made to raise awareness of LGBT issues, especially in the last few years. In 2015, informal LGBT activists and the Jordan-based LGBT-inclusive magazine My.Kali organized a small...
Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Educational opportunities. Administrative support – managing bureaucratic and administrative workloads that are often part of community approaches can be extremely burdensome. Securing practical resources, such as funding, can present challenges for communities. They may be caught between maintaining their independence as providers of support on the one hand and...
How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...Education figures suggests an alternative reason. Just five years after graduation, long before starting a family, women engineers and architects are already being paid less than their male counterparts. The lack of career progression that this suggests increases with age, with the number of women in senior positions dwindling to a minuscule proportion. With such...
How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...education and in life more generally. “They have been pushy to an extent. Not just in tennis but in everything. I think that I’ve developed that mentality since a young age.” Finally, Raducanu’s parents seem to stay in the background at her events and are not recognisable. Parental behaviour around training and competition can determine whether a young athlete has...
Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...educating others and justifying their needs and experiences. This enables them to concentrate on getting support without an extra stage of explanation and justification. Group members can build up their social bonds between each other, and experience complete acceptance, without the need to defend their existence. This can be an important step before people can feel safe...
The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...education, and markers of station, but did so on limited incomes, which depended precariously on the life, health, diligence, and probity of the male breadwinner. As the critic Edward Copeland remarks: ‘As a consequence, money, especially money as spendable income, is the love-tipped arrow aimed at the hearts of Jane Austen’s heroines and her readers…’ Thus the...
Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...education system and the intentional sabotage of bipartisan politics (mostly by the Republican Party), the United States is dangerously divided. As Abraham Lincoln warned in 1858, “a house divided cannot stand”. The election of Raphael Warnock will be interpreted as a beacon of hope, and maybe it is – the tireless work of Stacey Abrams and others in Georgia took...