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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...family. End of story.’ Despite Dowden’s emphatic assertion, this wasn’t the end of things by any means. The ‘story’ – centring around Cummings’s flouting of the lockdown regulations with his cross-country trip to County Durham – went on to dominate the headlines for at least the next seven days, until the focus of the news media was pulled dramatically...
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The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
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The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...family a few months ago. The public discussion eventually escalated to spectacular proportions in the UK when Guardian journalist Owen Jones walked off the set of Sky News, outraged at what he saw as the unwillingness of Mark Longhurst and Julia Hartley-Brewer to accept it as a queerphobic attack. Transcript Let us, however, call the tragic event for what it was: an...
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Boys will be boys?
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Boys will be boys?

...families with absent fathers, and the disappearance of men from professions in regular contact with boys. With regard to the latter, much of the discussion has centred on education, and particularly primary schools, where there appears to have been a real decline in the proportion of male teachers. Recent years have also witnessed a series of campaigns to increase men’s...
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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...families already have in their hands. Individual titles are cheaper to buy and easier to distribute on scale. It follows that replacing digital reading with print reading would remove access to texts and stories for children who do not, and cannot have, print books. Seeing the digital format as an asset implies valuing the unique sharing opportunities of e-books. E-books...
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
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Tackling juror trauma and stress

...family and friends and therefore deprive them of an important source of support. Not only are jurors isolated from family support, formal support through the courts is also lacking. Currently support for jurors in England and Wales consists of signposting to their GP and the charity Samaritans. With NHS mental health support service overstretched, jurors may struggle to...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...family and friends get together and embrace. Visiting relatives to drop off sweets and presents and exchange intimacies at 10-15 metres apart does not feel natural. This year under social distancing the usual physical intimacies of hugging were not possible. This Eid Mubarak digital card, designed by Thanu, herself a Sinhalese Buddhist, offers warm greetings and best...
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Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...family’s interests? My country’s interests? Our species’ interests? In particular, for our case, should we put aside our temporal perspective – that we are judging from the 21st Century? Putting aside our temporal perspective would lead to our judging either both tours wrong or neither wrong; the passage of time would make no difference. If we allow our temporal...
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Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
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Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...family entertainment. Yet it was a remarkable career, and it is difficult to understand the contours of the past half century of British showbiz with taking stock of the significance of Cilla. In many ways, her achievements were most notable for establishing continuities between different eras. Despite being vaulted into prominence by the earthquake of Merseybeat, which...
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