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The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...for and against this idea. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A333 Key questions in philosophy...The moral equality of combatants: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Jus ad Bellum / Jus in Bello distinction and be able to understand why it might need to be qualified understand and take a view on the idea of the moral equality ......
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...opened as the largest ship canal in the world. The canal engineers [Cogs, winches and other machinery powering a canal lock] The early canal builders struggled with the rugged terrain of England's Pennine hills. Creating a network of canals in this landscape was an uphill challenge - sometimes literally! But connecting the powerhouses of Yorkshire and Lancashire was a...
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...open, saying several times over something like "a real murderer". This frightened me dreadfully, on account of the Chartist troubles & I could not get over it for some time. But the man quickly dropped back afterwards. The unpleasant episode quite filled my mind for a time. The Chartist's object being to surprise one at, night, as Sir George Grey told me, of course...
Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...opens doors to urban life. But it has also been repeatedly turned down as the potential national language. According to speakers of other languages, the strong ethno-linguistic identity displayed by its primary speakers has acted as a turn off. Secondly, naming Luganda the national language would be viewed as favouring the Baganda. So what’s the solution? Uganda is not...
Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come
Society, Politics & Law

Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come

...open to render them irrelevant for the foreseeable future. State legislatures and governors determine voting rules and federal boundaries. With a Supreme Court upholding effective voting restrictions and boundary gerrymandering, let alone taking a conservative position on the plethora of social and environmental issues that come before it, America will be firmly taken...
The Lords against the gunboats: When the House of Lords took on Lord Palmerston
History & The Arts

The Lords against the gunboats: When the House of Lords took on Lord Palmerston

...opened Monday evening's discussion without displaying many of those capacities as a rhetorician which have long since gained him a name among the master of eloquence, and in the brilliant manifestation of which he knows so well how to dazzle the judgments of the Senate. Yet we are bold to say that never before, in the annals of the Parliament, was pronounced any oration...
Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!
History & The Arts

Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!

...open are now shut up. Add to these considerations, that fatal precipitancy, whereby we seem hastening to unavoidable ruin, under the spell of weakness and dissipation in those who are instructed to take counsel for us. Qui ignorantia et voluptatibus ducuntur, misses faciunt Reipublice honores. For which reason, however great the examples are of trifling in the midst of...
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...open air events and especially on marches. They were unfurled at union branch meetings and trades council events. So they made strong statements about the workers they represented but for many years they were not confrontational, rather reassuring about sharing the culture of the ruling classes. We don’t know when and where this banner appeared but surely it was paraded...