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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...publication, it’s still A Clockwork Orange which has the most enduring influence. One of the more unusual examples of this influence was the novel’s appropriation by the espionage community. During the 1970s, the title supposedly became the codename for an alleged campaign to undermine the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Prompted, apparently, by fears that Wilson was a...
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Article 10 mins
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...public services. A doctor demanding a bribe from a patient before prescribing desperately needed medication. An MP representing the interests of a company owned by a donor to their political party over the interests of their constituents Corruption as a threat to climate action We know that corruption can frustrate and distort the best intentions of governments, and in...
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Article 10 mins
Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...health, confidence and world view had shifted significantly. I remember feeling that another child should not face the humiliation I had felt, which is why I wanted to share my story publicly, hoping it would empower other children and young people to challenge school hair policies. The BBC article contains a video that was shot in 2018, but not made public until 2020....
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Article 15 mins
Some thoughts on Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Some thoughts on Brexit

...health and housing. I take a different view. Since 2010 our finance minister (Osborne until recently) has returned to the 1930’s and instituted an economic policy regime of “austerity”. The Keynesian notion of boosting aggregate demand (and incomes and growth) through publicly supported aggregate investment has been replaced with an attempt to cut expenditure...
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Article 10 mins
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...health. I spent over twenty years teaching adolescents in Secondary and Higher Education. The air of each classroom was dense with hormones and possibility, but it is also a hugely challenging time of life. I feel I shall always have more to learn about mental health in this time of change and growth. Inclusion and belonging for those with learning disabilities. I feel...
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Article 5 mins
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...public sector innovation in particular are emphasised by Hartley (2005, p. 27) when she highlights that ‘the drivers [for innovation] in the public sector are to achieve widespread improvements in governance and service performance, including efficiencies, in order to increase public value’. In this regard, the distinction between profit-oriented private sector...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...public spheres – but with little awareness of their value to future generations of film archivists and historians. The organisations were the bodies, from government level downwards to anti-establishment militants, who sought to harness the medium to help spread their message. Sometimes it was ‘official’ information and education that emerged, about the latest...
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Article 10 mins
Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?

...health officials eventually dropped this case and agreed that Hannah was competent to make her own decision. These issues do not only apply to complex ‘life and death’ decisions like Hannah’s but to everyday routine medical practice. In fact understanding children’s rights and assessing capacity to make decisions is relevant to the practice of all professionals...
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Article 15 mins