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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...health more broadly and to Social Services and Welfare. Ann One of the things that I think is brilliant about Childline is that it doesn’t get stuck on the rhetoric of children’s need. What I mean by that is that it is very common to construct what children’s needs are from the outside in a way which is not at all helpful because it is paternalistic and it makes...
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10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...Public Administration at Harvard. He worked for a number of years as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at the London Business School before joining the BBC in 1993 as an economics correspondent for radio and television. In 1997, he became Economist Editor on BBC2’s Newsnight programme, and four years after that he was appointed BBC Economics Editor...
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...public gathering of historians I think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer. Ian of course is one of the world experts though, if not the single greatest expert on the life and times of Adolf Hitler. His two volume epic biography of the Nazi dictator is now the standard text on the subject, and...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...health and education provision and rising poverty and inequality. The benefits of revenue and rents fail to trickle down to the majority of citizens. Yet, the continent abounds with natural resources and more are being found all of the time, which is why nations like China are increasingly looking to Africa to secure new supplies. According to Vines (2014): ‘Six of the...
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...publicity. Dallas Campbell: Here are the canals on … Frank Drake: These are the canals and the civilisation that was solving its problems with this great canal system that he thought he saw with the telescope. All of which proved to be false. Dallas Campbell: Do you think that’s because of back then, you know, we obviously have a sort of anthropocentric view of the...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...public debates often circle round and round who has legitimate claims to welfare and that sort of division of people into bad, undeserving, scrounging, bogus, against decent, legitimate, deserving, respectable, is I think one of the sort of recurrent features that students might find throughout D218. Gail Lewis May I add one other point in relation to that as well that as...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...public events. A confident performer – helped no doubt by spending 14 years as the lead singer of a band called You Jump First – he asks the audience to raise their left arms. They obey. After a pause, he asks them to raise their right arms. Once again, they comply. “I know you’re conscious because you’ve all got your hands up,” he declares. The same sort of...
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...public were men who manipulated electronic instruments and equipment. Behind the scenes was a male-dominated industry of producers, songwriters, publishers, and recording engineers. (Dunbar, 2011, p. 177) Male rock musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970), sang about love, sex, and relationships from positions of power and control, while the aggressive sound of the...