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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...Busy Factories (many EMB posters were produced and displayed in sets of five) were starkly modernist and partly abstracted. His work is sometimes described as having elements of Cubism and Futurism. [EMB poster Motor Manufacturing] 'Motor Manufacturing', by Clive Gardiner, from the 'Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins, displayed September...
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Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...money to the account details in the business invoice. A few weeks later, Alice receives an angry email from Bob because he has not been paid. After a bank investigation she finds out that she had transferred the money to Eve by mistake – so what went wrong? It’s clear that the business invoice and the associated signature did not come from Bob, instead the signed...
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...busy after I have retired. I worry about getting dementia and having strangers coming in to my home to help me. Reflecting on your own experiences of ageing is an important part of the academic study of ageing and later life because it affects the ways you approach the topic. Most people do not feel completely neutral about the topic of ageing. It is often difficult for...
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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...businesses other than we help them make more money. One of the challenges, therefore, is to convey something which is enticing so the person I'm engaging with is fascinated to want to learn more. Because the goal is not actually to sell a product or service there in the elevator, it is just to entice them in. JAMES FROWEN Interestingly, I started writing that elevator...
Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...money, they are told. Now watch what happens when they are given a list of names of major power players in the East Coast news media whose names are all clearly Jewish. Welcome to an opening for anti-Semitic ideology. Empowered Individuals…with Guns We’ve been telling young people that they are the smartest snowflakes in the world. From the self-esteem movement in the...
Why did the SNP lose seats in the 2017 General Election?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did the SNP lose seats in the 2017 General Election?

...money Before the election the Conservatives only had one MP in Scotland, and so could only hope to improve on their previous showing. Ruth Davidson ran a very good campaign and has proven herself to be a capable and effective leader. However, as openDemocracy revealed last week, there is another factor at play. Conservative election spending in Scotland has more than...
Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...money in Washington-based think tanks and university departments to help promote their own agendas in the region. The UK government’s key regional ally, Saudi Arabia, is complicit in the acts of terrorism that we see in Britain these days through its promotion of an unyielding, intolerant and pernicious form of Islam across the globe. And yet the UK government still...
Italy: What happens next?
Society, Politics & Law

Italy: What happens next?

...money now is on stronger populist parties in the autumn elections, a collapsed left and a centre-right that sees itself as the only bulwark against a populist quasi-dictatorship. In short, whatever you may think of the M5S and Lega’s economic policies – and some are, indeed, mad – they are the first to actually grab the bull of EMU by the horns and argue for a...