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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...analysis of advanced capitalism in the West. He was one of the main authors (along with Stuart Hall and E.P. Thompson) of the May Day Manifesto, published on the eve of the student and worker unrest of 1968, which put forward a radical critique of contemporary capitalism in the period of the Harold Wilson Labour governments. [Statue of Sciascia in Racalmuto] Statue of...
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Article 10 mins
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...analysis. In November 2016 the New Statesman reported that the cost of reducing migration to Government targets could be as much as £6 billion per year. A lack of accountability [22nd June 1948, Some of the first Immigrants from the Caribbean island of Jamaica arrive at Tilbury, London, on board the ' Empire Windrush'] The policy and its political fallout is largely...
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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...analysis of all available good quality scientific evidence in a given area. The heart of a guideline is a set of practical recommendations agreed by a committee of experts, including people with lived experience, and checked and rechecked with a wide range of people and organisations who will be affected by the eventual product. A NICE guideline is, therefore, about as...
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Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon

...analysis shows that over half the emissions reductions needed to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget [a 78% reduction on 1990 UK territorial emissions by 2035] involve people making low-carbon choices, whether adjusting to the different characteristics of low-carbon technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns (eg, by eating less meat)....
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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...analysis of what had happened. The 225 and its close variant, the 332, were grounded while detective work took place. Subsequently, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) decided that what they had discovered, allied to a series of protective safety orders, meant “an acceptable level of safety” had been restored. EASA said Airbus, who makes the Super Puma, had...
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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...analysis plus live blog is here. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton completely dominated the debate, with Sanders speaking with power and conviction, from the heart. Most unusually for the US, which has not experienced a socialist presidential candidate since Eugene Debs in the early twentieth century, he openly describes himself as a democratic socialist whose ideal...
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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...data and research to make changes without fear or delay. It is a joined-up strategy that challenges old ideas about the ‘inevitability’ of suicide, stigma, and the idea that if a reduction target is achieved, the deaths on the way to it are somehow acceptable. “Even if you believe we are never going to eradicate suicide, we must strive towards that,” Mallen says....
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Article 15 mins
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...data to evaluate educational outcomes and achievements; and small-scale empirical comparisons (evidence gathered through first-hand observations, interviews or conversations) of teaching and learning in classrooms. Both approaches are valid, depending on what you wish to find out. In this course, you will learn a bit about each strand...Global perspectives on primary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs