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A Stitch in Time saves Nine

It’s hard to argue with the careful and earnest semantics of the coalition document, in which Cameron and Clegg pledge to ‘tackle the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood’ writes Zenobe Reade. Yet the remit of Cameron’s avowed campaign against ‘premature sexualisation’ is unclear -

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The future of broadcasting

A new blog has been started on the future of broadcasting by David Graham, one of Britain’s most distinguished programme makers.

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New Equality Bill Needed to Grant Men More Leisure

Yesterday to mark International Women’s Day, the OECD published a report comparing the amounts of leisure enjoyed on average per day by men and women in the developed world. The report found that, on average,  women enjoyed less leisure than men, a finding that led it to conclude that ‘governments and firms need to do more to tackle the gender equality gap’.

I wonder how keen the OECD would have been to make such a  call had the methodology it employed to compute the quantities of leisure enjoyed by the two sexes not been quite so obviously flawed.

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A Greek Tragedy

Greece’s financial woes dominated last week’s EU Summit, writes Natalie Hamill. With government debt at 113% of GDP, and a public deficit of 12.7% (more than 4 times that allowed under the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). Greece has been spending far beyond her means.

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A touch of democracy for the EU?

The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is a little-known Clause in the Lisbon Treaty (the much embattled re-formulation of the failed EU Constitution, which came into force in Dec 2009). Under the ECI, 1million EU citizens from a “significant number” of EU states can submit an “appropriate” proposal to the EU Commission suggesting that it drafts new legislation.

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Txt Spk: bd 4 skls?

Apparently children who are down with the latest literary lingo are bang on with their understanding of the English language. Research published by the University of Coventry earlier this week rather unhelpfully concludes that “children’s use of textisms is far from problematic.”

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