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The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...account of market economics, it was not a work of pure economic theory. What Smith offered, instead, was a detailed account of Europe’s 18th-century economy. He did not consider economic mechanisms in isolation but rather as part of a broader social, historical and political landscape. The book was not a celebration of individualism, nor was it hailing the rise of a new...
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Article 10 mins
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...accounts of George Mahood or Peter Mortemor, whose travels across the UK were dependent upon the generosity of the general public. 3. Don’t we need criminal justice responses that morally condemn and punish those who have broken the law? Blame and moral condemnation are based on the assumption that people should ‘get what they deserve’. However, this idea often...
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Article 12 mins
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...accountability, trust and fairness in the pursuit of the ideological goals of eurosceptics and UKIP. Their mission also seems to be part of concerted and murky social media campaigns by right-wing interests and the agendas of wealthy corporate individual and foreign politicians that are only now becoming clear as campaign funding issues are becoming exposed Selection of...
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Article 10 mins
Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business
Health, Sports & Psychology

Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business

...accountability — failures that happen at the point of service, often in food businesses that believed they were doing enough. Rarity should never be mistaken for acceptability. When harm is preventable, the standard cannot be fewer deaths. It must be none. [Waitress taking a couple's order at a restaurant] Episode 1: Owen’s story Owen Carey was 18 years old when he...
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Article 5 mins
Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...accountability, reciprocity, trust, and consent (Ahenakew, 2016, 2019; Jimmy, Andreotti & Stein, 2019; Whyte, 2020). In this article, I will summarise some elements of my presentation, and provide links to relevant resources. My work in this area is informed by my collaborations as a founding member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective, a...
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Video 10 mins
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...account of the friend/enemy distinction as an existential antagonism – implying the ever-present possibility of physical killing – that is constitutive of the political, Schmitt’s attempt to deduce the political from a place where it did not yet exist requires a definition of the enemy as such, one that is linked to the possibility of a proper war – that is, an...
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Article 15 mins
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...account of what they all said. Esther Mary what were the main issues raised for you? Mary MacLeod I think that a great deal of the discussion among the children, and between the children and the teachers, was about bullying, and it’s very clear and has become clear that within secondary schools the best approach to tackling bullying within a school is from the children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...accountable to the Governing Body; this person is likely to have a major view and influence on the leadership and management structures that exist. The majority of headteachers will be non-teaching, although there are still small (often rural) schools, where headteachers with some teaching commitments will only have part of the week to exercise leadership and conduct...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs