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Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...Working Paper No. 83, The Open University. • De Henau, Jérôme; Himmelweit, Susan and Perrons, Diane (2017). Investing in the Care Economy – Simulating employment effects by gender in countries in emerging economies. International Trade Union Confederation. • De Henau, Jérôme; Himmelweit, Susan, Lapniewska, Zofia; Perrons, Diane (2016). Investing in the Care...
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A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
History & The Arts

A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws

...worked At the start of LGBT history month in February 2017, the government announced it would pardon 49,000 men of sexual offences for homosexuality. While this is an important nod to justice, it is also a reminder of everyday injustices suffered by LGBT people in Britain when it was still a crime to be gay. Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1967, the government voted to...
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Freedom of speech
History & The Arts

Freedom of speech

...work out where to draw the line between speech that causes offence that should be banned, and speech that causes offence that should be allowed. The second is to work out whether there really is a difference, in principle, between offence and harm. Some might say that any speech that gives offence should be banned. The implications of doing this would be draconian. Some...
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How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?

...work and can be integrated into the healthcare system.” The study adds to "mounting evidence" that community health workers working in routine care facilities can effectively deliver the psychological therapies sorely missing in many resource-poor countries, according to Vikram Patel, psychiatrist and professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...working towards developing readers who can and do choose to read, and who read with interest and enjoyment, engagement and imagination, and increasing discernment and critical reflection over time. Such engaged readers focus on constructing and considering meaning as they ‘read the word and the world’ and are motivated to do so. The complex factors which interact to...
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English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries are frequent and diverse in character; many are to be found in arresting contexts bound up with displays of power and informal, ruthless responses to the poor. From the early Tudor morality play Magnificence (1520-22), in which Poverty complains, ‘I am baited with dogs at every man’s gate’, through to the closing of the...
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What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?
Digital & Computing

What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?

...work? Encryption is simply a way for two or more users to exchange messages securely. Encryption algorithms are like a box with two locks. For example, if a user called Alice wants to send her friend Bob a secure message, she puts it in the box and locks it with her key. Then, she sends the locked box to her friend Bob, who can only open the box and read Alice’s message...
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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...work, the bus home or walking to the car park, we’re glued to our mobiles; we’re maximising the precious few minutes we have. What else? The title, New Day, is hardly distinctive. Does it sound like a potentially strong brand? Or more like a failed breakfast TV programme? Trinity Mirror has not disclosed how much it is costing to launch the new paper but however many...
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