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Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?

...children’s clothing. The negotiation was final and, crucially, did not include sanitary products. Sanitary products were charged at the standard rate in the UK until the 2000 budget at which point the VAT rate on sanitary products was reduced to 5%. The essential legal instrument regulating VAT application across the EU contains three provisions relevant to the tampon...
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...children, Jim, the little boy who let go of nurse’s hand, did indeed experience something worse: he was eaten by a lion. Instead of pointing that out, the Prime Minister David Cameron said that a vote to leave the EU would be ‘a leap in the dark’: ‘Our current access to the single market would cease immediately after two years were up; our current trade agreements...
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A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
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A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015

...Children no longer play in Irish during playtime at school; our host families have reduced from twelve families to four and the English language is spoken daily by over 90% of the population. Oideas Gael is a strong force in the area, both economically and socially but, all in all, it is clear that reversing language decline is a particularly difficult challenge once the...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary
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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...
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Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London
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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...
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