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Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?

...thinks the partnership deals are having some “success”, it measures that “success” in terms of border management. However, without substantial improvements in regional economic development coupled with conflict resolution these “successess” will prove to be ephemeral. Dismal track record All this raises the question of whether the EU is simply throwing money...
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UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out
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UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out

...think the more probable outcome is simply that the government will find itself with an expensive industrial problem and an embarrassing diplomatic mess. The unintended consequence for the British nuclear industry of last year’s referendum vote to leave the EU is that the decision will also take the UK out of the Euratom treaty that protects the EU’s nuclear industry...
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Heritage in war
History & The Arts

Heritage in war

...thinking until relatively recently: ‘An American commander, faced with taking the Louvre from a defending enemy, unquestionably would blow it apart or burn it down without hesitation if such would save the life of one of his men (T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War, Kindle Edition, loc. 3401)’. Although nobody would deny that soldiers, at least those fighting in a just...
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Why is ball tampering such a big deal for cricket?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is ball tampering such a big deal for cricket?

...think they would be caught, or were not deterred by the possible sanctions. Leading by example In several cases of cheating, it has been senior players that have induced their younger teammates to cheat. Two former cricket captains, South Africa’s Hansie Cronje and Pakistan’s Salman Butt, both recruited younger, less experienced players in their attempts to manipulate...
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Young people are not apathetic
Society, Politics & Law

Young people are not apathetic

...think otherwise. So many young people are aware of the conditions facing them under capitalism in the West – they are living them. They are, in many ways, an atomised and fragmented group of people. A key reason for this is the current employment climate. [Protests in Barkers Pool, Sheffield, 12th March 2011.] Protests in Barkers Pool, Sheffield, 12th March, 2011. It is...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...Thinking History What do Renaissance hospitals tell us about? Not just about medicine, but also about concepts of the body to which that medicine was applied, the destiny of the soul (should the medicine not work), the priorities of the society from which the funds for the treatment were forthcoming (or extracted). But the people who documented the work at the Florentine...
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Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...think. Unfortunately, despite recent advances in the public visibility of transgender people and stories, experiences of exclusion and mistreatment are sadly enduring. [Trans student bullying] According to universal human rights principals, all people have the right to an education. But bullying school cultures, where transgender students feel unsafe and unable to learn,...
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Darwin explores the Sierra de la Ventana
History & The Arts

Darwin explores the Sierra de la Ventana

...think Nature ever made a more solitary, desolate pile of rock;—it well deserves its name ofHurtado, or separated. The mountain is steep, extremely rugged, and broken, and so entirely destitute of trees, and even bushes, that we actually could not make a skewer to stretch out our meat over the fire of thistle-stalks. The strange aspect of this mountain is contrasted by...
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