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How we talk about Savile
Society, Politics & Law

How we talk about Savile

...Dan Davies’ biography suggests, in plain sight. The problem wasn’t that people didn’t know. It was that – among other factors – the macho culture prevented them, prevented us, from recognising it as abuse. [Jimmy Savile] Jimmy Savile Davies’ biography demonstrates how Savile was adept at implicating others. He notes, for instance, that Savile explicitly...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...Dan Quayle: visiting a school in 1992, he “corrected” a student’s spelling of the word “potato” to “potatoe”. This simple error became one of the lasting images of his career, and was interpreted not simply as a sign that he couldn’t spell one of the more common root vegetables, but that he was of impoverished intelligence generally. Transcript Then there...
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The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) June 13, 2016 When the lives of a specific group of the population are targeted purely on the basis of their sexual, racial and/or gender identifications, we are talking about a hate crime. And hate crimes must not be co-opted into dominant logics of “us versus them”. This simply serves to feed dominant and dangerously simplistic views of a...
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Deall datganoli yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Deall datganoli yng Nghymru

...dan fodel ‘rhoi pwerau’ (2011-2018) datganoli deddfwriaethol o dan fodel ‘cadw pwerau’ (2018-) Mae pwerau deddfu sylfaenol yn cyfeirio at y gallu i ddrafftio a datgan deddfwriaeth heb droi at ddeddfwriaeth arall. Dechreuodd y Cynulliad fel corff â phwerau deddfu eilaidd (gallai ofyn am i ddeddfwriaeth gael ei phasio yn San Steffan) ond daeth yn ddeddfwrfa...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...la señora Pérez? Are you Mrs Pérez? Es José María. He is José María. Note that in Spanish it is not always necessary to use the personal pronouns for ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘he’ or ‘she’. Activity 1 Listen to the audio, in which people are saying their names, and write down the word they all use before saying it. Listen to people saying their names. Soy...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...religion; our modern Games have 42 disciplines, compared to the six of the Classical world; today, men and women of all nationalities are invited to compete, whilst, according to the Greek author Pausanias (V.6.7-8), any woman of marriageable age discovered at the Ancient Olympic festival supposedly risked being thrown off a cliff; today athletes wear light clothes (often...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Neurodivergence and birth trauma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and birth trauma

...A., Chang, Z., Larsson, H., Mataix-Cols, D. and Fernández de la Cruz, L. (2019) ‘Association of caesarean delivery with risk of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis’, JAMA Network Open, 2(8), e1910236. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.10236 (Accessed: 14 March 2025)....
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Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...Laing, for example, known for his consideration of delusions as valid accounts, gives the example of a friend who, some years earlier, had a psychotic episode in which he had “a voyage into inner space and time” and “at one time I actually seemed to be wandering in a desert landscape as if I were an animal … a kind of rhinoceros or something like that and emitting...
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