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What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...economic recovery. It was supported by the City of London and, according to contemporary opinion polls, enjoyed significant public support. The Liberals eventually broke off the pact in August 1978 and were left licking their wounds. Labour reverted to a minority government and negotiated agreements on a policy-by-policy basis with various minor parties until it finally...
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...economic situations. A holistic approach to children’s needs balances genetic and environmental factors and considers the transaction between biological and environmental needs. The spiritual needs of children It can be argued that all children also have an inherent spirituality which should be considered to achieve a truly holistic picture of developmental needs. As...
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...Economic experts predict that the adoption of AI might add between 13 and 16 trillion dollars to the global economy every year by 2030. These extraordinary figures have been driven in good part by a form of AI known as generative artificial intelligence which allows neural nets to create new text, music, pictures, videos and voices. Artificial intelligence was getting...
Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...economic inequality, an under-resourced public education system and the intentional sabotage of bipartisan politics (mostly by the Republican Party), the United States is dangerously divided. As Abraham Lincoln warned in 1858, “a house divided cannot stand”. The election of Raphael Warnock will be interpreted as a beacon of hope, and maybe it is – the tireless work...
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...economic status/class/race see Carter and Weiner, 2013; for UK achievement gaps related to race/ethnicity see Stevens, 2007, for gender, ethnicity and social class see Strand, 2014) and disproportionate numbers of Black male students disciplined and excluded from school (for US see Skiba et al., 2002; Monroe, 2005; Ritter and Anderson, 2018; for UK see Parsons, 2008;...
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...economic organisation and division of labour: What is termed globalization is the culmination of a process that began with the constitution of America and colonial/modern Eurocentered capitalism as a new global power. One of the fundamental axes of this model of power is the social classification of the world’s population around the idea of race, a mental construction...
Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...economic activity is detrimental to our own and earth’s future. While there have been recent wildlife programmes (notably David Attenborough’s BBC programme ‘Climate change the facts’) the back catalogue of our wildlife programs on TV are often sanitised versions of the problems humans are creating. When there are problems mentioned, they are so far away that...
Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were experts at exploring these very issues. Between the 8th and 11th century (the Viking Age), Europe saw significant technological advances, not all of them Scandinavian – the Anglo-Saxons, Frisians and Franks were equal players. To understand these changes,...