Archive for October 2024

Tanton’s Network: Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation, brace for climate change and preserve “European” culture.
Green Hate: Now climate change is amplifying environmental concerns that have always run through the white supremacy and the anti-immigration movements.
Eco-Fascism: Experts warn that extremists who seize on global warming to justify violence are part of a far right trend to reclaim environmentalism as their own.

The survey asked questions about things such as health and well-being, pay and conditions, and what people like about working in the sector. This year, we also asked more questions about things such as bullying, harassment and discrimination, to get a deeper understanding of workers’ experiences.

How do societies address poverty and tackle the shifts taking place in labour markets that make work less attainable, less remunerative and less predictable – particularly for people with disabilities? How do we manage the associated rise in personal debt? Are our welfare systems up to the task of giving people the support they need not simply to survive but also to flourish as our economies change? How have neoliberal political economic norms and policies impacted work and welfare, and what does the future hold as those norms and policies shift?

A letter sent to the chancellor by a leading health charity, thinktanks and the body that represents accountants says carving out a new category of preventive spending would mean a healthier population and save the NHS money.

Everyone has stretches of sadness. Shifting how you think about and relate to sad feelings could help you through these times

A quantitative analysis of 16 million articles related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) revealed only a modest relationship between conventional indicators of research quality and citation in policy documents as indicators for article influence in formulating policies.