Category Archives: Property
Four ways pensions still fail to support staff who are young, low paid and part time
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Financial advisers often say it’s never too early to start thinking about your pension. And with good reason. As recently as ten years ago, less than half of all UK employees were saving into a workplace scheme, leaving…
what needs to be fixed
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Junior officers of the Nigeria Police Force are planning to embark on a strike in protest against poor welfare. The leadership of the force has denied that conditions are bad and warned against the strike action. Lanre Ikuteyijo,…
Turning Red: Girlhood in animation should be allowed to be angry and messy
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Animation has been conceived as “for children” for decades even though animation pre-dates cinema (the magic lantern show, for example) and was originally made for adults. However, while these films might be for children and often are about…
Turning Red’s portrayal of ancestor worship highlights an important part of Chinese culture
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Disney’s new Pixar film, Turning Red, follows Meilin “Mei” Lee, a 13-year-old living in Toronto, Canada. She’s an average teenager contending with all the things girls her age do (boys, friends, school). However, she has the added pressure…
Biodiversity: why new rules to ensure nature benefits from building projects could fail
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The UK government is making serious investments in new infrastructure as part of its post-pandemic recovery strategy, with £27 billion committed to road expansion, and a target of building an additional 300,000 homes per year. But it also…
Could Vladimir Putin be ousted over his Ukraine invasion?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on with no apparent solution through international diplomacy, some commentators are wondering if an end of the conflict could come from Vladimir Putin’s removal from power in Russia. Russian troops on…
Polish generosity risks hardening anti-immigrant sentiments towards Ukrainian refugees in the long term
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. According to the United Nations, about 3.4 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion. Of those fleeing, about two million have crossed the border into Poland. While the initial flows of Ukrainian refugees were housed by the…
What’s the best way to parallel park your car? Engineers have the answer
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. You’re driving slowly along a street, looking for a place to park. You come across a long stretch of parallel parking. But to your frustration, the spaces left by other people’s parking efforts are not quite long enough…
TikTok is propagandists’ new tool to win elections in Southeast Asia
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Scholars and political observers have raised concerns over public opinion manoeuvring on social media in Southeast Asia as three countries in the region – the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, are gearing up for elections. Propagandists’ strategic manoeuvring of…
New bill in NSW could prove crucial to helping reduce numbers of First Nations children in out-of-home care
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In New South Wales, as of June 2021, 42% of children in out-of-home care were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. This stark over-representation has been the subject of multiple child welfare reviews, from Bringing them Home to…