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Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?
Society, Politics & Law

Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?

...public may seem like a carefree display of affection, but for people in same sex relationships it is still a risky thing to do. Despite progress in our attitudes to gay partnerships, the findings of Enduring Love?, our two-year study into how modern couples maintain relationships, suggest that some among the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning+...
What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?
Digital & Computing

What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?

...public key that is available to anyone and proves the identity of the user, and a private key that stays with the user. Alice uses Bob’s public key to lock the box, but it can only be unlocked with Bob’s private key. WhatsApp’s system adds a further level of encryption, known as “perfect forward secrecy”. This is like a second lock with a key that changes for...
Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...public come to terms with the implications of future environmental change driven by changing climate. Sea levels around the UK are currently rising at around 3mm per year, and a projected increase in the number and intensity of storms and other extreme weather events attributed to human-induced climate change is likely to intensify the processes of coastal change. Beaches...
Rwanda: an open and shut case?
Society, Politics & Law

Rwanda: an open and shut case?

...public authorities must comply with the ECHR. The definition of ‘public authorities’ includes ‘any person certain of whose functions are functions of a public nature,’ which in this case referred to the UK’s Home Secretary, in their capacity as a Government minister. If the UK Government sends asylum seekers to a country where they know there is a substantial...
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...public spats between Wilshaw and Gove proved him to be far more obdurate and less pliable than the media originally portrayed him to be. These arguments, which reached a crescendo with a vitriolic attack on Ofsted by a right-wing thinktank, were largely the result of Wilshaw’s growing discontent with the very limited accountability of free schools and academies – the...
The Extraordinary Rosa Parks
History & The Arts

The Extraordinary Rosa Parks

...public transportation] Rosa Parks being fingerprinted She wasn't the first person to have been arrested in Montgomery for refusing to give up seats - Claudette Colvin, a fifteen year old girl, had been convicted for refusing to give up her seat to a white person earlier in the year. Claudette's case had already created a desire by some civil rights activists to have a...
Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...public. ChatGPT caused a sensation – not only amongst artificial intelligence experts - but also amongst the wider public. It quickly became the fastest growing online service - ever. Within hours of its release, newspapers, magazines and online sites were posting excited articles detailing their experiments with ChatGPT. This excitement was soon coloured by concerns...
Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...public utlity turn into a financial instrument?...[An inspection cover bearing the name of a council-run water company] Transcript: Along with the other regional water companies in England and Wales, Thames Water was privatised in the late 1980s. These privatisations were driven by the then Conservative Government in order to: increase competition and widen public choice...