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Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...familial, partly tribal groups called “hearths” – and expulsion means sure death from cold. In Always Coming Home, alongside the main narrative, we get ethnographic notes about the customs, myths and rituals of the Kesh tribe. Principles and beliefs associated with Taoism were also central to Le Guin’s imaginative fiction: non-action, living harmoniously with the...
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Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...family bathrooms” and students who have survived sexual abuse and are more comfortable with single-stall facilities. And now, Privacy for All, a group dedicated to opposing transgender bathroom advocacy, is hoping to launch a similar campaign in California. It is currently collecting signatures to bar any public institution from permitting individuals to use bathrooms...
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Enduring Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enduring Love

...families. We also got a lot out of, we were at Christian schools basically. So it becomes a way of life obviously, but you do have to look into it to appreciate the sort of finer points. Ann It brings in the business of forgiveness. So if in a marriage you can bring that into it, because we’ve all done wrong things, and forgive one another, that is a bedrock for that...
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Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...families. This is what Mo tapped into when she took on the role of Northern Ireland Secretary. She met people on a human level and she spoke to them on a human level. She listened and she heard and she wasn’t afraid to talk about the pain and the suffering whilst also focusing always on the need to compromise and to listen to one another, in order to stop the violence...
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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?

...family and community members who are experiencing death, dying and loss. The evidence suggests that empowering people to ‘confront’ their own mortality is important both personally and in terms of enabling a willingness and capacity to help others. I know when people know that I am dying, they cross the road when they see me coming. I wish they wouldn’t. I know why...
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How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...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 inequality of pay, matched by inequality of treatment, it is no wonder they don’t stay. Bad for women, bad for...
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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...family. Eric Wade, taught and directed numerous residential (summer) schools as a friend and academic colleague of Peter. It was he who appointed him as one of the first tutors at the OU. Eric fondly recalled Peter’s engagement with teaching and students. Tom Kinneavy did team teaching with Peter at these Schools. He saw: Peter's professionalism, his experience, his...
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Banking crimes without end
Society, Politics & Law

Banking crimes without end

...families, employees and employers, lenders and borrowers, and central and local Government – that is, everyone. None of which is yet to mention the biggest crimes of all, emerging during 2007 and culminating in the financial crisis. In the UK, the response to a crisis precipitated by long term and systematic fraud and theft was a rescue of private capital from the...
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