From psychoactive substances to the EU referendum, and from PrEP to Magic Mike live...
Here's the news you might have missed in May...
Politics
WATCH: Obama’s final White
House Correspondents’ Dinner
Very funny
The 2016 elections: curate’s eggs all round
“It
shouldn’t be possible to produce elections where all are losers and most are
simultaneously winners and yet that’s precisely what happened.”
The devastating Lords report on
the British Bill of Rights
http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/2016/05/09/the-devastating-lords-report-on-the-british-bill-of-rights/?Authorised=false&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.ft.com%2Fdavid-allen-green%2F2016%2F05%2F09%2Fthe-devastating-lords-report-on-the-british-bill-of-rights%2F&_i_referer=&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app
http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/2016/05/09/the-devastating-lords-report-on-the-british-bill-of-rights/?Authorised=false&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.ft.com%2Fdavid-allen-green%2F2016%2F05%2F09%2Fthe-devastating-lords-report-on-the-british-bill-of-rights%2F&_i_referer=&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app
"The British Bill of Rights
has become the “Godot” of legal instruments"!!!
Philippines president-elect
Rodrigo Duterte vows to bring back death penalty and shoot to kill powers
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-president-elect-rodrigo-duterte-vows-to-bring-back-death-penalty-and-shoot-to-kill-a7031251.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-president-elect-rodrigo-duterte-vows-to-bring-back-death-penalty-and-shoot-to-kill-a7031251.html
Worrying
Policing whipped cream: Home Office publishes advice
for Psychoactive Substances Act
The perils of
unscientific laws…
Very quietly, Home Office backs
down on Psychoactive Substances Act
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/05/24/very-quietly-home-office-backs-down-on-psychoactive-substanc
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/05/24/very-quietly-home-office-backs-down-on-psychoactive-substanc
A hopeful sign...
Ultimately I cannot bring myself to vote for Brexit
“I’ve come to the view that the EU does more good to
the UK than the UK does bad to the EU”
Study confirms
that the national press is biased in favour of Brexit
“45% of 928 referendum
articles it studied were in favour of leaving while 27% backed the remain case.
Some 19% were categorised as “mixed or undecided” and 9% were designated as
adopting no position.”
LGBT
Students
call for LGBT-only accommodation at universities
Segregation
leads to isolation
UK PM David Cameron pledges to
speed up PrEP and help global LGBT rights
I hope action
follows the talk
UK’s
first out gay senior judge Sir Terence Etherton becomes master of
the rolls
Progress
Nauru
becomes latest country to decriminalise homosexuality
Woop woop!
UK
government ‘raises LGBT rights concerns’ with Bangladesh
It is good to
see the UK government raising the issue
Education
The left is lost on higher
education
http://wonkhe.com/blogs/comment-left-lost-higher-education/
http://wonkhe.com/blogs/comment-left-lost-higher-education/
A bit of a clickbait headline but
there are some interesting points
Peace in our time? The other future of quality
assessment
Change is still
coming but not as dramatic as once feared (at the moment…)
Gaps in the White Paper that will undermine students
Jim Dickinson
on top form – “I’ve often thought that going to
university in the UK as an undergrad is like visiting a theme park- the big
maps, the smiley people in t-shirts, the expensive catering; there’s a bunch of
costs you haven’t thought about, no redress once you’re in if half the rides
aren’t working. And it’s not as if you can easily change your mind if you’re
disappointed on the day.”
Will likes of Google and Facebook really offer
degrees in the UK?
I think it is more
likely to be an overseas University than a multinational company
TEF ‘not meaningful’ until discipline data available
Of course
people value subject-level information about teaching more than
institutional-level information
London Met plans to cut 400 jobs in ‘rebuild’ vision
A huge gamble
to make a sustainable institution
Science and Technology
NHS England
won’t be rolling out HIV-preventing PrEP drugs
A bad decision
Entertainment
10 things to expect from
Eurovision’s first U.S. broadcast.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/05/11/_10_things_to_expect_from_eurovision_s_first_u_s_broadcast.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_bot
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/05/11/_10_things_to_expect_from_eurovision_s_first_u_s_broadcast.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_bot
Mostly accurate...
Rebel Wilson joins West End's
Guys and Dolls
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36367600?SThisFB
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36367600?SThisFB
Might be worth seeing...
Channing Tatum is bringing live
'Magic Mike' show to Las Vegas
Might be worth
a watch… ;-)
And finally…
Envy at 30,000 feet: Resentment
of first-class passengers can be a cause of air rage
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/05/envy-30000-feet?fsrc=scn%2Ftw_ec%2Fresentment_of_first_class_passengers_can_be_a_cause_of_air_rage
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/05/envy-30000-feet?fsrc=scn%2Ftw_ec%2Fresentment_of_first_class_passengers_can_be_a_cause_of_air_rage
Walking through first/business to
get to economy doubles the risk of air rage - totally understandable!
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