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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...English votes for English laws’! The increasing recognition of England as England, as a nation, will of course only help to further loosen the already fraught ties that bind the UK and which also plays directly into the hands of the SNP. Gordon Brown has in recent months repeatedly attacked the Conservatives for the ‘damage’ he says that this is doing to the...
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Article 10 mins
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...English, whose ignorance of black people shocked me. (Selvon in Nasta and Rutherford, 1995, pp. 58–9) It was as a consequence of encountering migrants from other West Indian islands that Selvon for the first time became ‘aware of the richness and diversity of Caribbean speech’ (Sandhu, 2003, p. 145), an important factor in the writing strategies adopted in The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...English girl with long fair hair and blue eyes. But, as childhood friends do, we grew apart. Maybe we’d have grown together again if another ambulance hadn’t come and taken Jonny away. His brother told me about it afterwards. It happened at a house party. With a few drinks in him, he’d got upset, disappeared and taken another lot of tablets. By this time, his mother...
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Article 15 mins
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...everyday ways in which you might use it: checking email, internet banking, an online supermarket order, ‘skyping’ friends? Or perhaps you think about the 'net' itself, the internet as a global infrastructure, connecting different places? The image above is one of the most commonly used images of the internet, from The Opte Project. It was generated on 11 July 2015 and...
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Article 10 mins
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...everyday racism that ‘originates and operates in established and respected (social) forces, and therefore receives far less public condemnation’. Ture and Hamilton (1967) coined the term ‘institutional racism’ in their seminal work Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America. In this work, Ture and Hamilton made an important distinction between overt racial...
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Article 10 mins
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...everyday life. However, reflecting and working on the attitudes and behaviours of a thinking disposition may be something you will find helpful to your studies. There are ideas in this course that will help you in some of these areas. All students in higher education are encouraged to develop courage and independence in thinking. Starting to study is much like learning in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...English and continental composers. Until around 1730, he worked in partnership first with the publisher and violin maker John Hare (d.1725) and later also with Hare’s son Joseph (d.1733). Walsh was an extremely astute businessman and his output covered a wide range of secular repertory that would appeal to the London audience, including songs, operas, instrumental music...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...everyday life of the communities who reside in this country. After that exhibition the next version was done digitally and printed on flag materials used in many community gatherings, processions and demonstrations, schools, as well as galleries to generate a debate about socio-political issues as well as issues that are internal to the art world. One of the key...
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Article 5 mins