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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...public goods Commodities or services that benefit all of society. * reparations There are many ways to define reparations. The dictionary definition is ‘the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury.’ The International Centre for Transitional Justice states that ‘Reparations are meant to acknowledge and repair the causes...
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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...
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Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?

...Health v. Hellerstedt, which considers state restrictions on performing abortions. Four weeks later, the court will hear Zubik v. Burwell, a challenge to President Obama’s universal health care mandate. With only eight justices, there is a good possibility these and other cases will end with tie votes. In the 1868 decision Durant v. Essex Company, the court determined...
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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...health and safety regulations taking away all risk within society, but it seems the natural drive to push our boundaries has remained. As Professor John Adams discusses in his book ‘Risk’, people are using these types of sport as the antithesis to the sanitized and safer World in which we live, he suggested that "We have a profoundly ambivalent attitude to risk - all...
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