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Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...course. SENSITIVITY STATEMENT We appreciate that FGM is a highly sensitive subject area, and that this podcast contains content about the practice and impact of FGM that some listeners might find emotionally challenging and distressing. Please do prioritise your well-being and skip sections, pause, or stop the recording where needed. If you are affected by FGM or by what...
Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...opened up with Surprise Surprise (a mawkish vehicle specialising in family reunions which Victoria Wood memorably skewered in her satirical drama Pat and Margaret) and Blind Date, the win-a-person dating gameshow which could justifiably be called the defining ITV programme of its decade. Unsurprisingly it was not short of critics. In a memorably affronted appearance on...
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...open window, habited as a prize-fighter when he enters the ring. "You will take cold," I exclaimed. "Where is your shirt?" "I have not a shirt —my shirts are unwashed." "But why not tell the servant to send them to the laundress?" "Ah ! how could I presume to do that in Mrs. Knight's absence?" One more illustration of the eccentricity of De Quincey. I had been to...
Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...opens up upper class institutions to a few more different people, without doing anything for any of the people who needed the cause most in the first place. It come down to this. Major corporations can't claim that by using trans identities to sell clothes, or beer, or whatever it is this week, they are doing something radical or political. Trans is not a commodity to be...
The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before
Society, Politics & Law

The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before

...open on Super Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan issued a stern rebuke implicitly aimed at Trump, saying that the Republican nominee – whoever it ends up being – needs to reject bigotry. Senator Lindsey Graham, who has a strong dislike of Ted Cruz, said the Republican Party may: … have to rally around Ted Cruz as the only way to stop Donald Trump. Late last week it...
Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...opening of American society. Her nomination will no doubt serve as an example and inspiration to many girls and women who aspire to the pinnacles of political leadership in this country and around the world. Clinton enters the general election season with a unique set of advantages and disadvantages. She became a household name as First Lady. This notoriety helped her in...
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...How to achieve peaceful and lasting change in modern societies remains an unanswered question, and one that’s ripe for fresh action and inspiration. Dangerous ideas from poets are just what a genuinely open society should be able to encompass and discuss, not conceal, ignore or suppress. This article was originally published by OpenDemocracy under a CC-BY-NC licence...
Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...openness means little in a world where trade is underpinned by the mutual recognition of standards which are constantly and collectively updated, interpreted and litigated. Even if EU laws are copied into British law via the ‘great repeal bill’, that means little without the cooperation mechanisms which make them operative. You may say that your pharmaceutical product...