How UK broadcasting’s key principle of impartiality has been eroded over the years: A word that was bandied about freely in the wake of the Gary Lineker-BBC affair was “impartiality”. Apparently the gold standard of UK broadcasting, it was something that certain critics judged the BBC sports presenter to have breached in his personal social …
Fracking review suggests UK has softened precautionary principle since leaving EU – here’s why it matters: LHBLLC/Shutterstock The UK government recently conceded that the reasons for its 2019 ban on hydraulic fracturing “have not gone away,” and there is “no compelling evidence” to support rethinking it. Better known as fracking, this industrial process injects millions …
‘One China’ principle: what this interesting aspect of diplomacy means for China and Taiwan: Dilok Klaisataporn/Shutterstock The tense triangular relationship between the US, China and Taiwan has emerged once again amid escalating military tensions across the Taiwan Strait. The status of the small, densely populated island off the southeast coast of the Chinese mainland is …
What does the Open-Closed Principle mean for refactoring?: In his 1988 book, Object-Oriented Software Construction, professor Bertrand Meyer defined the Open-Closed Principle as: read more: Opensource.com Alex Bunardzic Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Travelling to South Africa?
Blood clot fears: how misapplication of the precautionary principle may undermine public trust in vaccines: The arrival of effective vaccines against COVID-19 has been one of the few good news stories of the pandemic. However, communicating the safety of vaccines has long been difficult, as shown by most countries having some level of vaccine hesitancy, …
To stop mass extinction, reform the outdated Victorian harm principle: In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill published the first of his two major works, On Liberty, which helped him become, as many agree, the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century. In that essay, Mill defined what came to be known as …