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Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...class in their workout clothes or “hold it in.” Hence, demonstrating Berkeley students held out signs that said: “Where was I supposed to go?” or “I couldn’t hold it any longer.” Such options have clear drawbacks and health risks. Urinary tract infections, depression and even suicide could be among them. As a result, sometimes students see their best option...
The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...class communities in the North to isolation. For areas still blighted by paramilitarism, prescription drug epidemics, poverty, lack of access to basic services, and no prospect of secure and well-paid employment, a handful of glassy office buildings in South Belfast will do nothing. Shaping an economy which serves these communities above all else, and which rises from the...
The origins of Welsh male voice choirs
History & The Arts

The origins of Welsh male voice choirs

...class male bonding and identity expressed through that most democratic and inexpensive instrument, the human voice. When some choirs inevitably folded in the face of acute economic hardship, others took their place, like Cwmbach from the Cynon valley formed in 1921, and Pendyrus in 1924. Both, like the older Treorchy choir (1885) survive to this day, though in the depths...
Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football

...class stadiums, will feature immersive fan zones in each host city. For instance, Düsseldorf will present ‘Faith. Love. Football’, a play commissioned for Euro 2024, while Berlin plans to establish the world’s largest fan zone at the famous Brandenburg Gate. For fans unable to attend in person, social media will play a pivotal role in engagement. UEFA and...
Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...class … But it turned out that I'm really good at connecting dots and understanding abstractions, which led me to studying the political and cultural aspects of space. Later, I started researching decolonial (or anti-colonial) theory, which led me to see parallels between the way we talk about exploring space and the way in which Western powers colonised the world. For...
Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...classes to Yorkshire and Derbyshire coal miners, steelworkers, railway workers, engineers and local authority manual workers. The students’ trade unions and employers arranged the courses and the students contributed by deciding on what they would learn. Many learnt by teaching one another. The notion of students as peer-teachers, supported to develop their own ideas...
Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...Class Stamp to commemorate the centenary of the conflict. But underneath the image, and cropped out from the stamp, is the annotation William’s mother added to the photograph that she sent in remembrance of her son to the Imperial War Museum in 1919. It begins ‘Mother’s Billie Boy’ and ends with the note ‘one of the very best’. These small annotations reveal...
Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...classed with other moral virtues such as honesty, fairness, generosity or kindness. Having these moral virtues (it might be argued) implies more than just having the right impulses: it means understanding why and when these impulses are morally valuable and acting accordingly. So, on this second view, a good case can be made for the view that, while lions and boars can be...