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...systems of economic production, the distribution of goods, and sites of the exploitation of workers, whose labour produces that wealth. Walking around many of the UK’s cities today can remind one of the wealth generated during the industrial age, with elegant Victorian buildings, statues and squares, although the labourers of this period are often absent from this...

...system change, biosphere integrity, climate change, novel entities, and biogeochemical flows.] Figure 1 - Breaching our planetary boundaries. Source: Steffen et al, 2015 This is not merely a story about carbon emissions (the driver of the greenhouse effect, and therefore global heating), but about all the ways in which our economy interacts with the earth, it extracts and...

...system of governance was created, with the use of D’Hondt, petition of concerns, power-sharing and mandatory coalitions, Northern Ireland post 1998 returned to a devolved system if Government with an Assembly as opposed to a Parliament, a First Minister/Deputy First Minister as opposed to a Prime Minister and MLAs as opposed to MPs. The powers of the institutions were...

...system. However, when it comes to Higher Education in prison, the approach is currently somewhat chaotic, which means that for many prisoners, access to Higher Education can be a lottery, depending on the particular prison that they find themselves in. For example, structural barriers such as the so-called ‘six-year rule’ has the effect of restricting and discouraging...