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Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit

...public healthcare, whether students will have to start paying higher fees, and whether families could lose access to child benefits. Those working could be asked to apply a work permit of some form. Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which is one of the two main treaties establishing the European Union, states that every person holding the...
There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Society, Politics & Law

There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters

...public sector employment (disproportionately impacting women) or by depriving lone parents (disproportionately women) of welfare and support. Indeed, when the imbalance on the Brexit team first came to light, a House of Lords committee asked David Davis, secretary of state for exiting the EU, to clarify how many women were on his team. He did not know. He had not noticed....
The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
Languages

The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...public behaviour, political values and personal integrity. In trying to impose their own narrative on events they ran into a series of further problems, all of which were, ironically, thrown up by the logic of storytelling itself.Storytelling plays a vital role in the business of politics and can take many different forms. Along with its close cousin ‘narrative’,...
Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...public and governmental concerns over fossil fuels and their impact on the climate, together with a sharp drop in prices, are threatening the survival of the international oil companies (IOCs). “The IOCs cannot assume that, as in the past, all they need to survive is to wait for crude prices to resume an upward direction,” Stevens warns. “The oil markets are going...
Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...public concern around parenting in recent years, has focused on absent fathers, and the apparent problems resulting from boys, in particular, growing up without a male role model. Recently The Open University partnered with Action for Children to explore this issue, interviewing boys and young men in contact with social care services. We found that the gender of the...
Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions
History & The Arts

Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions

...publicity for Dunlop's innovation. Almost overnight, Ordinaries and tricycles were obsolete, and the pneumatic-tyred, chain-driven safety bicycle reigned supreme in the cycling world. The pneumatic tyre revolutionised cycling design by making it a much more accessible activity than it had been hitherto. Perhaps the most significant change that it facilitated was that of...
The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...public is represented, not through abdicating power to elected representatives, but instead to directly participate in the decision-making process on climate change measures. [Tell the truth pink boat] Extinction Rebellion protest in Oxford Circus, London. A key advantage of citizens’ assemblies is that they can bypass the perceived imposition of painful climate...
Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions

...public without gloves and a hat. Long skirts and petticoats did not suit the industrial environment which women found themselves working in. Their clothing proved to be dangerous and, in some cases, fatal. Gradually it became accepted that women would need to wear more practical clothing for their new roles. However, no matter how capable women were at their jobs society...