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A-level results: confusion is the result of months of inertia and years of policy
fizkes/Shutterstock Thirty-six hours before the release of A-level results in England on August 13, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced a new procedure to review the grades. This followed five months of work by teachers and exam regulators to produce results which were sent to universities last week to filter applications.Continue Reading
Coronavirus: have we already missed the opportunity to build a better world?
Chad Madden/Unsplash, FAL Many people like to say that the coronavirus is teaching us a lesson, as if the pandemic were a kind of morality play that should lead to a change in our behaviour. It shows us that we can make big shifts quickly if we want to. ThatContinue Reading
Proposals by the UK government will effectively sanction war crimes by British troops
I spent much of the late 1990s as a reserve military intelligence officer involved in the hunt for war criminals in Bosnia. We got most of them in the end. A couple of years later, as a civilian human rights officer, I visited dozens of shallow graves and killing sitesContinue Reading
Local lockdowns can be successful – here’s what we need to make them work
Over the past few weeks, the UK government has gradually eased national lockdown measures. As the economy reopens, and people return to workplaces and spend more time in shops, pubs and restaurants, the number of contacts an individual has with other people will inevitably increase. Since then, there has beenContinue Reading
Building safer online spaces in Myanmar · Global Voices
Facebook faces great scrutiny in Myanmar A monk using his phone at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo and caption by Remko Tanis, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This article was written by Aye Min Thant, Tech for Peace Manager at Phandeeyar, an innovation lab in Myanmar. Every person inContinue Reading
Managing sheep lameness requires a concerted approach
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Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream – here’s how to take power back
shutterstock Individualistic western societies are built on the idea that no one knows our thoughts, desires or joys better than we do. And so we put ourselves, rather than the government, in charge of our lives. We tend to agree with the philosopher Immanuel Kant’s claim that no one hasContinue Reading
Women’s cooperative in Srebrenica produces ‘protective masks for everyone’ · Global Voices
Activists (from left to right) Valentina, Hilda, Jelena and Željka in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (May, 2020). Photo by Ahmedin Đozić/Balkan Diskurs, used with permission. This story by Ahmedin Đozić was originally published on Balkan Diskurs, a project of the Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC). An edited version is republished by Global Voices as part of aContinue Reading