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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

...accommodation to rough sleepers only when temperatures fall below zero, for three consecutive days! The inclusive policy approach rolled out under Covid-19 shows that legislative intervention can prevent thousands of households from free falling into homelessness and can save lives – so why stop now? View our dedicated hub on homelessness Discover more content like this...
What is The Social Contract?
History & The Arts

What is The Social Contract?

...decisions about decisions – how are we to decide who is to be leader? This idea of free individuals coming together, and thrashing out a set of rules is the idea behind a social contract. The idea is a very attractive one – it’s there in the great thinkers of political philosophy like Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, as well as in contemporary thinkers like John Rawls and Thomas Scanlon. A patriarchal obligation? To many ......
How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...free WiFi connection rather than a potentially expensive mobile data connection. Most iOS updates require you to restart your device, so downloading and installation of new software can take some time. Updates for the operating systems used by Apple Watch (watchOS) and Apple TV (tvOS) usually follow a similar schedule to that for iOS. Android Android is making great steps...
Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...free EU travel for Turkish citizens will take effect as it’s meant to in July. If it doesn’t, the deal could break down, and Lesvos will see new arrivals on its shores and once again the camps will fill up fast. And if it does go ahead, then the deal, which has highly dubious legal and ethical foundations, will succeed in shunting the EU’s refugee crisis to Turkey....
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...free when the new academic year began in March 2016. They represented about half the students from the poorest 50% of Chilean households.” Sense of urgency The need for a gear change in momentum towards all seven of the targets in SDG4 on education is stressed throughout the report. Our world leaders need to demonstrate their commitment to the 2030 agenda – to leave...
Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...free verse. [Hedd Wyn's headstone at Artillery Wood. ]After a petition was submitted to the Imperial War Graves Commission following the war, his headstone at Artillery Wood was given the additional words: Y Prifardd Hedd Wyn (The Chief Bard, Hedd Wyn). Chairing ceremonies are presided over by the archdruid, who reads the adjudicators’ comments before announcing the nom...
How Do Batteries Work?
Science, Maths & Technology

How Do Batteries Work?

...free to move, would rush back towards the positively charged end of the wire, until their negative charges once again just balanced the positive charges. This flow of negatively charged electrons appears as an electric current in the wire. In this case, the electric current would peter out very quickly, as soon as the electrons had redistributed themselves to cancel out...
Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...free to move around the stage as they did so. But whereas this format was perhaps intended to keep the debate more moderate, what actually ensued was a nasty and noxious spectacle from the start. The candidates even declined to shake hands when they took the stage. Keeping a grip Clinton was at her strongest on the opening questions about Trump’s attitude to women....