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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary

...csiga Kakaós csiga is a popular pastry available in every Hungarian bakery, but it’s even more delicious home-baked. It’s filled with cocoa and twisted around in the shape of a snail's shell before baking, making it many children’s favourite. Kakaós csiga was invented by a Hungarian confectioner in 1908, to celebrate his 33rd birthday! Image: © Gergely Király...
Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
Society, Politics & Law

Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights

...children, and temporary agency workers and workers with fixed-term contracts are entitled to the same basic conditions as comparable workers with permanent contracts. Employees also have rights to paid holiday and rest periods, as well as the right to be informed and consulted about matters that directly concern them at work. Employers, meanwhile, are forbidden from...
Five tips for relaxing during difficult times
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five tips for relaxing during difficult times

...Children can benefit from some assistance in mastering controlled breathing, and ‘Square Breathing’ as outlined in this short clip is a good place to start. 3: Visualisation – let your mind take you somewhere else… [Blue sunhat on a beautiful sandy beach with the sea in the background] In a nutshell, visualisation techniques involve you transporting yourself to a...
Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...children especially, they’ll join and their parents will be very hands-on, wanting to help. As time goes on, you watch the parents step back and the child get on with it as their independence blossoms. “I think anyone wanting to get involved in disability sport should give it a try, find a club that might have a spare chair for you. Expectations do need to be managed...
Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London
Society, Politics & Law

Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London

...children or losing access to their work. For example, in the UK, housing benefit is one of the largest and fastest-growing welfare expenditures. It exceeds £25 billion a year, despite numerous attempts to rein it in. You can’t do that Although New York’s rent controls are pushing it down the global league of cities whose property is snapped-up by the super-rich, they...
Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
History & The Arts

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween

...Children throughout Wales will be dressed in witch or ghost costumes come October 31, going from door to door, chorusing “trick or treat” in the hope of receiving sweets. In other words, the scene will be very much like that encountered at Halloween in the rest of the UK. On posters advertising Halloween events in Wales, the word Halloween is rendered in Welsh as Nos...
Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...children’s book. The French title avoids any reference to a stone altogether with Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (Harry Potter at the Wizards’ School). The seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, proved difficult to translate, so J.K. Rowling provided translators with the alternative title Harry Potter and the Relics of Death, which was the basis...
Why would British athletes choose winter sports?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why would British athletes choose winter sports?

...children whose parents have the income to afford skiing holidays. Finally, one of the most important factors influencing why an athlete might move into a winter sport is role models. Medals won in the past four Winter Olympics in skeleton have certainly boosted the profile of the sport and may encourage more athletes to consider taking it up. Any British athletes gaining...