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How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...leadership bid. Having fought two leadership elections in two years, it had developed a strong sense of how to use social media, and video in particular, to deliver positive messages with viral attributes. Humour was a key tool, triggering an emotional response that made the content more shareable. With 24,000 activists across the country, Momentum was able to mobilise...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...leadership, politicians, and the general publicWhile the outcomes of the Macpherson Report sent shockwaves across England and Wales and put increased pressure on police forces to demonstrate they were actively addressing ‘institutional racism’ within their forces, it also resulted in deep divides and vicious debates among police officers, police leadership,...
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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...leadership of this place at that time. Beside the names, I wrote the words, private meeting. And, just months later, the Progressive Unionist Party leader spoke at that loyalist news conference on decommissioning; when there was confirmation of just how close things came to falling apart not that many months earlier. Shoot back - or hold back? “In March 2009, all...
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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...leadership challenges and strategic opportunities. Envisage the digital environment needed to enable staff to design online learning experiences. Learn to lead, manage and influence digitally-driven change across departments and schools. Build scenarios for alternative digital solutions. The course takes approximately 10 hours to complete. We hope you find this course...
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Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...leadership. Privileging English liberty and free market economics over slavery was one way of addressing this moral deficit. Indeed, ‘English liberty’ (and the moral condemnation of slavery) and free trade was considered as something that could justify further imperial expansion around the globe, especially Africa. In other words, anti-slavery advocacy provided a new...
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Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?
Money & Business

Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?

...leadership of the Conservative Party in June 2016 she ruled out such a possibility. In her Easter message on April 16 she suggested that the country was uniting behind Brexit. Now she wants an election to resolve the issue after all. [The Conversation] But is that the real story behind this surprise announcement? Or has, as ever, economics got more to do with it? In her...
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...leadership from governments, or a combination of the two. It insists that both the costs and the benefits of change must be equally shared. “To be accepted, rapid change must be seen to be fair. This is especially true if and where there is any perceived sacrifice to be made for the greater good.” Secret human history One co-author, Andrew Simms of the New Weather...
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Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon

...leadership in this global endeavour. Indeed, it has been very exciting to be involved in the theory-changing ­discovery of water in Moon rocks, which had been thought to be devoid of water for almost four ­decades since the first samples were analysed in 1969. [Buzz Aldrin on the Moon] Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon Over the past decade, my team at The Open University...
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