1,497 search results
Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...business and diplomacy have spread English everywhere. The initial vehicle for this was the Empire. What we see now has its roots in a time long past. Over the past thirty to forty years, many in Europe have started learning English from the first year of primary school. It’s everyone’s second languagenow. Levels of fluency may vary, yet overall language competence...
View article Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Article 5 mins
What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...busy instead making hay with their preferred EU bogey-figures, namely Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, who are both portrayed as bullies embittered by the very notion that a member state wants to leave the club. The victory of Emmanuel Macron – the insider’s outsider –suddenly means there could be another leader that comes to embody EU hostility to the UK...
View article What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Article 5 mins
Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...business. Despite this, the offshore wind industry insists it has a bright future: costs are coming down, and supporters say the sector is becoming ever more competitive. Ironically, the slump in the price of oil has been one factor driving down the price of offshore power. Inactivity in the oil industry and the closure of many drilling projects in the North Sea and...
View article Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Article 5 mins
There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Society, Politics & Law

There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters

...business – reporting that companies with more women on their boards had a 53% higher return on equity. On the specific issue of negotiation skills, evidence suggests that women are just as successful as men. Too often, the myth of meritocracy is trotted out when people are asked to justify the gender imbalance on their teams. They point to experience, knowledge or...
View article There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Article 5 mins
The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
Languages

The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...business of politics and can take many different forms. Along with its close cousin ‘narrative’, it’s also something of a buzzword for political communications these days. As the authors of the updated version of Raymond Williams’s Keywords project wrote a few years ago, in the twenty-first century the concept of ‘narrative… has seen a sharp rise in...
View article The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
Article 10 mins
Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...businesses but has either ignored it or not had the capacity to inspect and regulate, following swingeing cuts caused by the 2008 financial crisis and much longer attacks on local government funding. As such the pandemic plays into poverty, ethnicity, local politics, and labour standards with those affected most least able to exercise their rights or voice. [Firefighters...
View article Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Article 10 mins
The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...businesses, and transnational organisations, such as the EU and UN). XR demand a target of carbon neutrality by 2025. This may seem an overly ambitious goal, but underlines the urgency of the changes required, while also allowing for some slippage to meet these goals at least by 2030. The final demand is the call for citizens’ assemblies. The aim here is to ensure that...
View article The new politics of climate change
Article 10 mins
‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis

...busy and joyful. Then, on 21 November 2017, the bombshell landed. I will never forget that day. After experiencing some trouble with his right arm, Alan went to his doctor, then had a raft of tests with a neurologist. When we were told he had Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of MND, it was unbelievable. Isn’t that what Professor Stephen Hawking and those...
View article ‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis
Article 5 mins