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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...businesses but has either ignored it or not had the capacity to inspect and regulate, following swingeing cuts caused by the 2008 financial crisis and much longer attacks on local government funding. As such the pandemic plays into poverty, ethnicity, local politics, and labour standards with those affected most least able to exercise their rights or voice. [Firefighters...
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Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...business model adopted by the IOCs has failed. They have to downsize, and many of their assets will have to be sold off. Above all, the corporate culture of these once-mighty conglomerates has to change. Although growing international pressure to take action on climate change and falling prices have together led to a decline in the IOCs’ fortunes, the rot set in many...
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The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...businesses, and transnational organisations, such as the EU and UN). XR demand a target of carbon neutrality by 2025. This may seem an overly ambitious goal, but underlines the urgency of the changes required, while also allowing for some slippage to meet these goals at least by 2030. The final demand is the call for citizens’ assemblies. The aim here is to ensure that...
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‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis

...busy and joyful. Then, on 21 November 2017, the bombshell landed. I will never forget that day. After experiencing some trouble with his right arm, Alan went to his doctor, then had a raft of tests with a neurologist. When we were told he had Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of MND, it was unbelievable. Isn’t that what Professor Stephen Hawking and those...
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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...businesses and citizens. Our analysis shows that over half the emissions reductions needed to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget [a 78% reduction on 1990 UK territorial emissions by 2035] involve people making low-carbon choices, whether adjusting to the different characteristics of low-carbon technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns...
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English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...business prospects, that he is to end up dressed like a beggar being threatened by a dog. Other typical allusions occur elsewhere in Shakespeare. In Henry V (1599), as Henry arraigns the traitors Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, their treachery is thrown back at them and made to draw significance from the common casting of dogs. . . . your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As...
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Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...need to be supported and extended to sustain the further integration of migrant and native communities. Enterprise support agencies and innovation centres and hubs should provide local level provisions to ensure that the needs of local ethnic businesses are supported in the development of strategic priorities so that their key economic and social role is further enhanced....
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...business of sorting out the details of the rule book on the Paris Agreement (Article 6) as well as perennial issues such as adaptation and technology transfer. However slow it might seem, things do seem to be shifting. I am starting COP26 as an optimist….let’s see if I remain so by the end. [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26...
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