Find out more about this new political grouping launched this week by members of the Labour Party to unify and renew the party. See the official website and Twitter account for details of activities. See the explanation in the New Statesman and commentary from LabourList grassroots supporters.
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Glossary of UN terms
For those who find the abbreviations used by the UN and its agencies difficult to understand try the latest free app which covers common acronyms and a glossary of terms.
Arab Development Portal
An initiative of the Coordination Group of Arab, National and Regional Development Institutions (CG), the Islamic Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which aims to provide a one stop shop for news, reports and statistical data covering economic and social development in the […]
Atlas of African Health
Just released by the WHO includes data on progress towards health-related Millennium Development goals. It forms part of the Wider WHO African Health Observatory which has a wealth of reports and data on health and health care in Africa. It also has country profiles and the full text of recent issues of the African Health […]
Is the Treasury being Economic with the truth about Brexit?
Recently the UK government claimed that a possible UK exit from Europe would have an immediate economic impact. Certainly according to a report published by Civitas this week The HM treasury claims do not add up. For other opinions see the IFS analysis of the impact on public finance. And reports issued which state that […]
EU referendum
View Demos visual mapping of the Brexit Twitterosphere for a stunning visual examination of key players and networks. Find out which three women were key players during the first week of May!
Online censorship on social media
A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact. They asked users (November 2015-March 2016) users to send us reports when they had their content or accounts taken down on six social media platforms: Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Then presented results by geography, platform, content type, […]
How Facebook news presents different realities
A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports. To consider how this source can raise questions about whether the Facebook mechanism of likes and friends manipulates what news ‘or facts’ that readers really see. View […]
Are Britons suffering too much stress?
Certainly this month examinations cause anxiety for many! The ONS released some shocking statistics which showed a rise in student suicides in England and Wales 2014. See the BBC discussion. And the Health and safety Executive estimated that In 2014/15 stress accounted for 35% of all work related ill-health cases and 43% of all working days […]
Pride of Place
A great project led by scholars at Leeds Beckett University with the support of English Heritage which is working to produce an interactive map relating to places in England which have been important to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. These include landscapes and buildings as well as ‘secret histories’. As well as […]
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