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Who is Donald Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Donald Trump?

...writes, is the music most despised and overlooked by the liberal elite, even though it is adored by its fans: “The reason metal triumphed was because it was the other, it channelled the audience’s anger, it was for all those closed out of the mainstream, and it turns out there’s plenty of them.” The music writer Simon Reynolds also saw Trump as a rock star, but...
What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...write in Nature today, the global environmental community is particularly concerned by Trump’s anti-climate and broader anti-environmental stance during his presidential campaign. Trump’s more extreme campaign statements may not eventuate. But there will most likely be substantive changes in how the United States engages with the world on environmental, and many...
Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name”. To which Jackson pithily remarked that “it is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word”. Trump has, of course, received a barrage of derision for his assorted mistakes – as another tweeter remarked, “how does a man who wants to limit immigration to only...
Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...writes Richard Berry...[Stop / Reset button] Richard Youngs’s book on democracy in Europe, Europe Reset: New Directions for the EU, begins with a rather visceral criticism of EU leaders’ apparent distance from the people they serve: At a supposedly crucial summit in Bratislava in September 2016, billed as a meeting where a new course for European integration would be...
The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja
Society, Politics & Law

The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja

...writing on the CONIFA tournament is in press, but a documentary I made The other World Cup: Football Across Borders was released last year and shown at the inaugural Football Collective conference. The film culminates in the 2016 World Football Cup, hosted and won by Abkhazia, a self-declared independent territory, considered by the UN to be a part of Georgia. It examines...
Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...writes: “These efforts were relatively short-lived, and many IOCs have subsequently pulled out of such ventures.” Limiting emissions There are doubts over whether the oil companies have the necessary technical and managerial skills to operate successfully in what is rapidly becoming a decentralised energy system. The IOCs also find themselves burdened with “stranded...
Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...write and have been expelled or truanted from school; were unemployed or on benefits before imprisonment, and have multiple and often serious mental health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at meeting human need and addressing the...
What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...writes blogger Mehak Anwar, ‘they are, after all, silly little characters that look more or less like cartoons’. Although the use of emoji now extends into all domains of life, from politics to education, for many they’re still associated with a type of expression which is light-hearted, even childish. And this association colours the meaning they have in all...