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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...classes as much as the cash-strapped student or minimum wage earner, alongside the busy commuter. Another is that there remains a significant swath of older people whose eschew Twitter and Snapchat, prefer the BBC to Vice and would still rather read their news on paper than on a phone. Especially if it’s cheap. Older people are poorly served by the news media in many...
Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...class, professional photographer Knut Bry are presented alongside those by young refugees living in the camp. This envisioning of solidarity with refugees is radically unlike mainstream media images of refugees because they are by and with refugees. These pictures do not objectify, do not rely on tropes of victimhood but speak of hope, agency and resilience through...
Selling Empire: Exhibitions
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Exhibitions

...classes, and families of emigrants) were Empire enthusiasts, and which (including some unions) were critical of, or largely ignorant about, Empire. [Egyptian Court] 'Egyptian Court' North Transept of the Crystal Palace', from Matthew Digby Wyatt's 'Views of the Crystal Palace and Park' This poster shows exhibits, first displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851, that did...
Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...class values. [Flashman bookcover] Book cover of Flashman by George Macdonald Fraser, (London: The Book club Edition, 1970) A year later George MacDonald Fraser’s Harry Paget Flashman (1969) – the imperial antihero who everyone mistakenly lauds – made his first appearance in the eponymous novels. Drummed out of Rugby at the end of Thomas Hughes’ 'Tom Brown’s...
What pressures are young men feeling?
Education & Development

What pressures are young men feeling?

...class. The men we spoke to were keenly aware of influences – from family, peers, teachers, media – encouraging them to conform to certain models of masculinity. One said: “There is pressure everywhere to tell you what man you should be.” Another added: “You have to be a young man who’s got a nice house, who’s got a nice car, who’s got a family with kids,...
Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society
Society, Politics & Law

Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society

...class. It is conceivable that these socialised differences carry over into the workplace. These differences then show up particularly clearly in highly regimented workplaces, where following instructions and meeting targets is how your performance is measured. Greater female rule keeping would explain both these phenomena. But while rule compliance is valued and rewarded...
Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...class holiday goers rather than just the privileged few. [A cargo-carrying 747] However, the venerable Boeing 747 may be nearing the end of its production life – its manufacturing rate is to be halved to six a year. A shift towards newer and more efficient aircraft that can land at smaller (and so more) airports and a tendency to use former passenger planes for freight...
Are we taking the fun out of reading?
Education & Development

Are we taking the fun out of reading?

...class suburbs of my observations are evidently keen to set children on the path of reading and formal literacy learning from a very young age. But what will children actually learn from practices such as those described here? That reading is a matter of duty but also something dirty? My – admittedly unsystematic – observations are not unique to Australian libraries,...