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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...writing notes studying] What has strongly come across so far is the positive way in which participants have coped with issues such as the monotony of everyday life under lockdown, and have used the time to their advantage. For example, a number of children and young people have developed hobbies and interests over the past year and hope to use these and develop them...
The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...write anonymously due to previous experiences of stigma in the workplace in relation to their ADHD. Random bruises – from accidentally knocking into door handles to more regularly having minor accidents, ADHD can impact how people move about in the world and the risks they take. It is not uncommon for me to find that I have bruises of ‘unknown origin’ as I can’t...
Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks

...writes that he did so with mixed feelings, and then offers the standout line: “But the time was right for them to be destroyed.” Back in 2010, I had reported that on a cold winter’s day, the bullets had been delivered in socks, and that the vehicle used to transport the weapons had got stuck in the snow and needed loyalist muscle to move it. These many years later,...
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...
International Jazz Day
Miscellaneous

International Jazz Day

...writing on jazz in particular geographical settings has over-emphasised the presence of national characteristics in the music but it is important to keep the ‘local’ in proportion. Pianist and jazz critic Leonard Feather’s version of the folk song ‘Early One Morning’ recorded in London in 1938 might be considered an obvious expression of Britishness. However,...
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...
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...writing poems, inventing games, and honing his skills of parody. The poem ‘Jabberwocky’, for instance, was originally a spoof piece of Anglo-Saxon poetry in the magazine he produced for his family. His knowledge of children’s literature was as great as his knowledge of games and puzzles as can be seen from the many ways in which he reworks familiar literary forms in...