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is a strong argument for increasing the basic income over time, to the point where it becomes the main plank of our social safety net. Achieving this longer-term project will require larger changes to taxation, and we return to this below. The arguments for the starter scheme are compelling, and it can be introduced immediately, with a longer-term pathway providing us with the
5 Nuclear safety As pointed out in Chapter 1, the threats posed by the nuclear complex of Northwestern Russia have attracted no little attention in recent years, not least from neighbouring Western countries. Thus, the issue of nuclear safety stands forth as the most highly profiled problem area among the three we have chosen to focus on in this study. It also differs from the other two by way of being far more heterogeneous in nature: some of the activities under scrutiny are of a civilian nature; others take place within the military sphere. Partly, the focus
Discussions around the safety of researchers of extremism have acquired a more substantial presence on Twitter, at conferences, and in literature, including for those researching the far right. As part of this, the scholarly community has incorporated a broader understanding of the range of harms including networked harassment, threats to livelihood, and
States, mean that regulation of the industry needs primarily to be at the international level, by means of international law and international organisations. Such regulation is the subject of this chapter. In particular, we examine the way in which international law regulates the exercise of the navigational rights of ships (which were outlined in earlier chapters) for the purpose of promoting the safety
, gaming spaces, but I understand that reaching out to them would risk my own personal safety – and there is no way to align this with my qualitative emphasis on openness. Hence, in my interview practice, I am talking about them without talking to them; I am talking around them. The methodological inconsistencies, my research interests being in part eroded by my practice, are
responsibility. CEOs prefer to be fast followers rather than innovators and explorers. Financiers keep close to their index. No-one likes to strike out or do something too radical in case it all goes wrong big time. Individual risk is set against system or public risk, and personal risk usually comes first. And when a real crisis hits, most leaders don't lead. They run to join the safety of the pack. Financiers huddle together while the banking system crashes around them. Politicians vote to support their leader's misguided ideas, whatever the
What follows are some general points about safety in TV studios, whether student or professional. In the professional world, you will find regulations covering all these topics – and more – affecting every production unit in the UK. YOU MUST ALSO MAKE YOURSELF FAMILIAR WITH YOUR CENTRE’S HEALTH AND SAFETY GUIDELINES. These pages are intended to complement those. Other countries will have their own laws and regulations, but the general principles apply everywhere! There are some points here about safety on location because it is sometimes necessary to
13 ‘A haven of safety’: refugees and the Manchester Women’s Lodge of B’nai Brith A revival of interest in refugees within the Manchester B’nai Brith Women’s Lodge, following the collapse of its Hospitality Committee in 1935, was apparently sparked off by the same chain of international events and those same pressures from Woburn House which had brought the MJRC into being. Early in November 1938 Colette Hassan brought back from ‘a refugee meeting’ she had attended in London an ‘urgent appeal for help’.1 A joint meeting of the Manchester’s men’s and women’s B
15 The safety of the people and the case against invasive health promotion Andreas Hasman Introduction In his ‘The safety of the people’ argument, Harris draws on Thomas Hobbes’s original position on the legitimacy of sovereign power, to defend a contemporary state’s moral obligation to ensure the provision of health care to its citizens.1 This chapter explores how the argument lends itself to a recent change of emphasis in health policy, which I shall refer to as ‘invasive health promotion’. This development is characterised by: • An understanding that the