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Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...history to consider when we think about equality and discrimination in professions and organisations – a legacy that will take a long time to fade. Change is happening. But it is slow, and it is tempting to assume that all is well because there is some progress made on the numbers. Politics has a few lessons to learn from business on this front. A long legacy Beyond the...
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By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire
Society, Politics & Law

By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire

...history The PCCs replaced an old three-pronged system of police governance, which was comprised of the home secretary, the Local Police Authority and the local chief constable. It was hoped the new system would address accusations that these authorities were opaque, that their membership was largely hidden from public view and that they were far too distant from the...
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To the Moon and beyond
Science, Maths & Technology

To the Moon and beyond

...history. In the 1990s the lunar prospector and Clementine orbiters detected water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles this water ice could be used as a resource in future lunar missions that we would use to fuel the rockets or to reduce our payload going back and forth to the moon. However, we need to have a way to extract this water from the water ice...
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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...history. It is an indispensable part of our physical and social lives. However, it is also responsible for a huge 39% of all global greenhouse gas (‘carbon’) emissions. 28% of this is due to the operational carbon from heating, lighting and cooling our existing buildings, while the substantial remainder of the 11% comes from the embodied carbon of constructing new...
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Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...history of the outsourcing of detention In 1971, the British government decided to halt the ‘flow’ of non-white migration from the former colonial states into the UK, alongside the implementation of a series of restrictive measures (which has since included virginity testing, x-ray screening of minors and the increased imprisonment of illegalised, mostly non-white...
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Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...history of politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women” as Bill Clinton (who was after all in the room), his opponent replied with a carefully prepared commentary, saying that unlike any prior Republican candidate she had encountered, Trump was not fit to serve. She also made sure to note that besides women, he had also attacked many minorities –...
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Where are you really from?
Education & Development

Where are you really from?

...history in relation to slavery, colonialism and immigration, the power dynamics within this conversation, even if unintentional, are significantly heightened. This is Me [Fish, chips, mushy peas and a slice of lemon, wrapped in newspaper] We can therefore see that this question sits within the complex realm of identity. If I tell you that I am English, having been born in...
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Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...History+of+Tyndrum&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=inmv&sxsrf=ALeKk017FMKAjWLiSuS-v3hD74JBo9Cl9A:1607114465247&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgxsH2l7XtAhX1snEKHTZeCnAQ_AUoBHoECAUQBA&biw=1024&bih=666 ‘Cononish Gold and Silver Mine, Scotland’, Mining Technology, nd:
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