1,131 search results
Brexit and the Art of Negotiation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and the Art of Negotiation

...economic outcome most people want: continued access to the single market without major disruption to the British economy. Even before negotiation has started, the spat between Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker suggests that the dynamic is oppositional, competitive and antagonistic. In other words the starting conditions for the Brexit negotiations are already strained....
View article Brexit and the Art of Negotiation
Article 10 mins
How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...economic profit. It has been defined as “a catch-all term encompassing propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and hoaxing — including the spheres of science and medicine”. Before the term fake news became popular, people would often use the term propaganda, which has been used since ancient times for political gain. The Roman consul, Octavian, is said to have...
View article How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Article 5 mins
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...economic arguments would be irrelevant. In 1990, Barlow co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which continues to fight governmental overreach on the Internet. Barlow passionately believed that the Internet offered the potential for: “a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth ....
View article John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Article 10 mins
Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...economic benefits that will result. The Alliance opened with 25 signatories. By the end of the 75-minute launch event on the second-last day of COP23 here in Bonn, El Salvador and Oregon had both signed on. By joining the alliance, governments commit to “phasing out traditional coal power and placing a moratorium on any new traditional coal power stations without...
View article Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Article 10 mins
Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...economic and cultural community, and a way of enriching metropole and colonies alike. [EMB Canadian lumbermen] 'Canadian Lumbermen', by Frank Newbould, from the 'The Empire is Still Building' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins; displayed September-October 1930; (TNA) CO956/225 Typically, not just EMB posters but other Empire collections of the time, such as sets of cigarette...
View article Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
Article 5 mins
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Economic Review, 2019, Vol.109 (2), pp. 325-352. Buck, Tim. ‘Imagining Imperial Modernity in British Colonial West Africa: Gerald Spencer Pryse’s Work for the Empire Marketing Board’. Art History 38, no. 5 (Nov. 2015), pp. 940-963. Chafer, Tony (ed.), Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (Palgrave, 2009). A collection that suggests...
View article Selling Empire: Further resources
Article 5 mins
Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...economic, aesthetic, socio-cultural, artistic and political. Although not mutually exclusive, these levels are often in tension with each other. By taking the focus away from individual creativity and moving to a discussion of collective or social creativity we can try to understand how interaction across boundaries in jobs and projects (including those of the wider...
View article Collective Creativity
Article 5 mins
The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times
Society, Politics & Law

The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times

...economic and political relationships that now bind the respective fortunes of Weetabix and Bright Food. But to figure that out, we’ll probably have to wait for the next instalment of the cereal tale. Update: Which, it turns out, was not a long wait. In mid-April of this year, Weetabix was returned to US ownership, sold to the Missouri-based, Post Holdings, a cereal...
View article The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times
Article 15 mins