Monthly Archives: January 2025

Thursday, 30th January (Cambridge)

Posted on January 30, 2025 by roycross

1. Here’s the UK National Archives (NA) video on the Beveridge Report of 1942 https://youtu.be/e-vGHp4P9LU Sir William Beveridge’s report laid the foundations of the modern British welfare state and the National Health Service (in the middle of the Second World … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 28th January (Richmond)

Posted on January 28, 2025 by roycross

1. Ethan Mollick has updated his guide to Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-to-use-now-an-updated-opinionated Every six months or so, I have written an opinionated guide for individual users of AI, not specializing in any one type … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 23rd January (Cambridge)

Posted on January 23, 2025 by roycross

1. A lot of the stuff on tools4Dev you have to pay for, but their blog often has interesting (free!) posts, like this one,  How to Write a Monitoring and Evaluation Report https://tools4dev.org/blog/how-to-write-a-monitoring-and-evaluation-report/ and this one, Monitoring and Evaluation Tools … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 21st January (Richmond)

Posted on January 21, 2025 by roycross

1. I guess we’re all holding our breath and crossing our fingers on Gaza right now. The New Zealand poet, David Howard, whose sequence of poems about a Croatian-Māori family, Mate, I included last year (on 30th April, to be … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 16th January (Cambridge)

Posted on January 16, 2025 by roycross

1. No fewer than six online (and f2f, if you’re in/near Cambridge) seminars from the REAL (Research for Equitable Access and Learning) Centre here in Cambridge over the next three months. This is the Eventbrite page for the first in … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 14th January (Richmond)

Posted on January 14, 2025 by roycross

1. John Kampfner’s latest post on his blog, Citizen of Everywhere, on the next – anything’s possible, he reminds us! – prime minister of Germany, Could the AfD seize power? https://johnkampfner.substack.com/p/could-the-afd-seize-power 2. A piece for World University News about determined … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 9th January (Cambridge)

Posted on January 9, 2025 by roycross

1. From Der Spiegel International, an account of the apogee (or the nadir: take your pick) of capitalism, One of the Most Dangerous Routes in the World: The Darién Gap Migrant Highway, Courtesy of the Mafia https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/one-of-the-most-dangerous-routes-in-the-world-the-darien-gap-migrant-highway-courtesy-of-the-mafia-a-51daa801-f513-462a-b8e2-7f2cab11f04a The cartel operates … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 7th January (Richmond)

Posted on January 7, 2025 by roycross

1. From NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, Future Signals – what we (NESTA) are watching for in 2025 https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/future-signals-2025/ Their list includes, among others The Minister’s menu: could the government subsidise healthy food through … Continue reading →

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