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The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...laws covering international conflict – at the Geneva Convention, the Hague Convention and so on. These conditions were conventionally divided into two groups, one concerned with when one may go to war and the other concerned with how one may fight. These two sets of conditions are standardly known by their Latin tags: Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello . The word ‘ jus’...
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...Law people & Chartists having closed their Mills, telling the people they might play for a while, by which they immediately jumped at the conclusion they were to cease working. They marched in procession into Manchester, where they forced all the other Manufacturers to join them. It is the horrid system of agitation pursued by several Members, which is responsible for...
Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...law. The country’s language policy also prescribes its use in primary and secondary schools, but many schools disregard this. Luganda, on the other hand, is the language of the biggest ethnic group in central Uganda. It works as a language of inter-ethnic communication, of wider communication and as a lingua franca. It is used in all domains: education, media and...
Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...law/geography/climate-change-coastal-erosion-and-flooding-the-thames-gateway-and-london?in_menu=480246 Accessed 28th January 2020 RGS/21stCenturyChallenges https://21stcenturychallenges.org/the-thames-barrier/ Accessed 10th January 2020 UNESCO http://whc.unesco.org/en/climatechange Accessed 12th January 2020 Wadey, M.P., Haigh, I.D., Nicholls, R.J., Brown, J.M. et al...
Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay

...laws) (EIS.org, 2022a). The background to this pay dispute is that the negotiators representing Colleges Scotland employers refused to increase their offer of £850 or ‘budge’ on a one-off thankyou payment to college lecturers in recognition of their work during two years of COVID-19 lockdowns during 2020 and 2021 (College Employers Scotland, 2022). The employers...
On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...Law; criticisms by LEAVE (despite being supported by the majority of the tabloid press) of media bias; or claims by Nigel Farage that women may be subjected to mass sex attacks if Britain stays in the EU. Some think that the whole debate is little more than a blue on blue civil war and that progressive politicians should not even be sharing a platform with pro-EU...
The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923
Society, Politics & Law

The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923

...law, brought in by the pioneering Infanticide Act 1922, meant that judges in England and Wales, no longer put other mothers in similar circumstances on trial for murder, sentencing them instead to around 4 months’ imprisonment. As for Lily, the father of her daughter was required by a court to contribute to the cost of her upbringing. In a strange twist, Lily named her...
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...law (Humphreys, 2019, p. 279), and any action from the North preventing them exercising this right could be considered as neo-colonialism. These rooted disagreements are difficult to overcome. However, it can be argued there is a tendency for conferences like COP26, the media around them and therefore people’s perceptions to focus on large scale forests as the only...