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The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...open carry legislation) and clashed with anti-fascist and other groups who stood up to them. Then 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr ploughed his car into a group of protesters, and has now been charged with the second degree murder of Heather Heyer, who died after he ran into her. Transcript The context for these events is as old as the US itself. The country was borne of...
How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?
Science, Maths & Technology

How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?

...figures. There are also some payments to the EC that are not allocated to a particular country and therefore are also not included in their figures. An example of this is fines, which is again a small proportion of total spending, typically between 2 and 3% of total expenditure. This article was originally published on the ONS website under an Open Government licence...
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...open information infrastructure." The internet is not and never was the most important fight in our world: addressing racial and gender bias, averting climate catastrophe and addressing gross income inequality are all far more important than the internet ever was. But the internet is the terrain where that struggle will be waged -- which makes the internet fight the most...
Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...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 operational carbon capture and storage,” the formal...
Life in immigration limbo: Befriending the women of Yarl's Wood
Society, Politics & Law

Life in immigration limbo: Befriending the women of Yarl's Wood

...opened, opposition to staff restraining a detainee escalated to riots and arson that eventually destroyed half of the centre. [The aftermath of the Yarl's Wood fire, taken on the morning of 15th February 2002] The 2002 fire at Yarl's Wood, viewed from a distance of three and a half miles In a system where migrants have little to no control over the processing time and...
No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals
Health, Sports & Psychology

No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals

...opens up some things – in terms of ways of understanding or experiencing sex – at the same time that it closes down others. And the same text has the potential to be read in different ways by different readers. For example, somebody might read sex advice to get ideas, to enjoy sexual images, to find humour in it – or a combination of these. But it’s also important...
Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...well be diminished; moreover, where and when each country emerges from this pandemic is also unclear. We will be left with very uneven geographies of international student flows. The imaginations of post-COVID-19 futures must not only hold open the doors for students, but should also shine the torch on the internationalism on which higher education has always depended....
Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...Open University. She looks at whether the New Deal by the government to boost the economy is actually good for the environment...[Boris Johnson talking at a Covid-19 press conference in March 2020] The COVID-19 crisis began with a focus on human health, but it wasn’t long before the economic impacts of the imposed lockdowns entered minds. The lockdown measures limited...