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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless

...social relations in the country. However, recent events such as the dismantling of democracy in Hong Kong, the persistent persecution of Uighur Muslims, and the troubling case of tennis player, Peng Shuai, have illustrated that this has been far from the case. Alongside the hosting of the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar, which also has a questionable human rights record,...
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Lessons from Covid-19: It’s time for a radical approach to homelessness and housing policies
Society, Politics & Law

Lessons from Covid-19: It’s time for a radical approach to homelessness and housing policies

...social and political processes that seek to organise them into one of two demoralising categories: ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. The statutory homeless assessment framework in the UK functions in ways that seek to divide homeless people into categories of ‘priority need’, and ‘intentionally’ or ‘unintentionally’ homeless. It’s a highly technical and...
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Two kings, two very different coronations
History & The Arts

Two kings, two very different coronations

...social life. Given his penchant for the finer things, it is perhaps unsurprising that George IV’s coronation cost 20 times that of his father’s. It remains, in 2023, the most expensive coronation in British history1. George IV’s coronation is also memorable for another reason, the unexpected arrival of his estranged and uninvited wife, Caroline of Brunswick. The...
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Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...social biological and psychological changes, during which individuals often start exploring their sexuality and engaging in sexual behaviour. This makes the provision of complete and accurate information during this life stage important. Over the past two decades there have been changes on how young people receive information about sex, with there being a marked increase...
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Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...social animals, and would likely only be feasible if sex were in itself a source of pleasure. There is also no shortage of examples where non-human sex has nothing to do with reproduction at all. Females of many species mate with males when they are non-fertile (marmosets for example). And same-sex sexual behaviour, which is definitionally non-reproductive, occurs in...
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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...social alienation and the complexity of the human condition. The Twilight Zone Vampires as we have come to know, love, or be bored silly by (brooding and Byronic types craving redemption and exercising abstention are becoming something of a cliché) do not have any obvious precedent in the Greek and Roman past. These rather bloodless creatures are both beholden to and...
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The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...social work’ (n.p.). [An employee by his desk, holding a half-filled packing box.] As such, what we can perhaps conclude is that the Great Resignation is still in play, but that this isn’t about people leaving the workforce entirely. Instead it is much more to do with labour market churn and job rotation in that UK employees have come to realise they want much more...
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Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?
Education & Development

Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?

...social and emotional skills to all students, a desirable initiative but hardly the solution for what to do when bullying actually occurs the use of discredited methods of intervention, such as the use of punishment, sometimes repackaged as “consequences”. As revealed by the Australia study, teachers are generally unacquainted with more effective problem-solving...
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