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Alan Turing ’s statue is set to be erected in Cambridge despite Historic England warning it would “harm” the character of the area. The mathematician’s alma mater of King’s College applied to erect a 12ft steel tribute to Turing designed by Sir Anthony Gormley . Historic England warned that the “eye-catching” new monument would “be at odds” with the traditional character of the college grounds, but Cambridge City Council has voted to approve the plans. The vote goes against the concerns also raised by the body’s own conservation officer, who agreed with Historic England that the vast rust-coloured artwork would compromise the “aesthetic significance” of King’s College, according to council documents. In favour of the statue, it was argued that there has been recent interest in Turing’s wartime code-breaking work and persecution for his homosexuality – which has led to a string of feature films such as the Imitation Games – and that he is a significant King’s alumnus. … [Read more...] about Objections to Alan Turing statue being erected at Cambridge University

All children between one and nine years old in London are to be offered a polio booster vaccine in the next four weeks, health officials have said. Parents have been told to wait until approached by the NHS before taking their child to get the jab and GP surgeries will give out the majority of the doses. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has now spotted the polio virus 116 times from 19 sewage samples across London between February and July and is now ramping up detection efforts. Most are harmless forms of the virus from people who have recently had a polio vaccination, but some have been identified as so-called “vaccine derived poliovirus (VDPV2)”. VDPV2 is when the virus in the vaccine replicates, mutates and behaves more like the wild form of the disease, which can cause paralysis. There are no known cases of polio despite the outbreak and health officials are unable to say how many people have likely been infected without knowing but insist the risk to the wider … [Read more...] about Polio vaccine will be offered to London children after virus found in sewers

II THE first characteristics which the book of Grotius revealed were faith and foresight. Great as it was, — the most beneficent among all volumes not claiming divine inspiration, — yet more wonderful than the book itself was the faith of its author. In none of the years during which he meditated it, and least of all during the years when it was written, could any other human being see in the anarchic darkness of the time any tribunal which could recognize a plea for right reason in international affairs, or enforce a decision upon it. The greatness of Grotius lies first of all in the fact that he saw in all this darkness one court sitting supreme to which he might make appeal, and that court—the heart and mind of man. What the darkness was which his eye alone could pierce was stated in his preface. He says: “I saw many and grave causes why I should write a work on that subject. I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. … [Read more...] about The Warfare of Humanity With Unreason: Hugo Grotius

MARCH, 1905 BY MARGARET SHERWOOD I UNDER the sun-smitten branches of the woodland and along the open road that curved, all golden with dust, over hill and through hollow, the warm air was full of the breath of pine and juniper and fern, and of the poignant sweetness of the sea. Now leaf shadows fell on the face of the girl who was being driven rapidly in a light carriage toward the east, and then the full sunlight of June lay there. The beat, beat, beat of the horse’s hoofs seemed to set the world in motion; the quick, uneven wind, the fluttering yellow butterflies, the slow black wings of crows overhead, even the gently floating white clouds against the dim blue, were to her full of the sudden joy of those that move and escape. Leaning back in her seat she closed her eyes, opening them now and then to steal a half fearful glance to the right, where, between dark tree trunks or beyond the gray-green tangles of a bit of moorland, the sea lay, incredibly blue. This undreamed … [Read more...] about The Coming of the Tide

EDWARD ALSWORTH ROSS THE sinful heart is ever the same, but sin changes its quality as society develops. Modern sin takes its character from the mutualism of our time. Under our present manner of living, how many of my vital interests I must entrust to others! Nowadays the water main is my well, the trolley car my carriage, the banker’s safe my old stocking, the policeman’s billy my fist. My own eyes and nose and judgment defer to the inspector of food, or drugs, or gas, or factories, or tenements, or insurance companies. I rely upon others to look after my drains, invest my savings, nurse my sick, and teach my children. I let the meat trust butcher my pig, the oil trust mould my candles, the sugar trust boil my sorghum, the coal trust chop my wood, the barb wire company split my rails. But this spread-out manner of life lays snares for the weak and opens doors to the wicked. Interdependence puts us, as it were, at one another’s mercy, and so ushers in a multitude of new forms of … [Read more...] about New Varieties of Sin

Among the magical words that hypnotize men’s minds and keep them from asking intelligent questions, the Monroe Doctrine has a sovereign charm in American politics. Secretary Hay has coupled the mention of this Doctrine with the Golden Rule. Let us venture to ask a few straight questions, and not be afraid to go wherever the honest answer to our questions may carry us. First, what was the substance of the original Monroe Doctrine in 1823, when it was promulgated? The Spanish American colonies had then revolted, and we had recognized their independence. There was a boundary question between the United States and Russia. We were a young republic, trying a great experiment in the eyes of a critical and unfriendly world. A “Holy Alliance,” organized at the instance of Russia, with a really beautiful programme for the good order of Europe, threatened to be turned into an instrument of mischief and oppression, and even to help Spain recover her possessions in America. It is likely that, as … [Read more...] about The Right and Wrong of the Monroe Doctrine

Standing before the door of his long-established but modest emporium, his ample form flanked by windows displaying hoes and pancake flour, boys’ suits and writing-paper, washboards and cigars, while a garish sign, “General Merchandise” creaked above, the pioneer proprietor pointed to a heap of freight the train now disappearing over the plains had dumped on the depot platform. “More work of the catalogues,” he commented bitterly. “Three sacks of ’em came to the post office last week, — now the folks are sending for the goods. Think they are saving money, I suppose.” “Perhaps they are?” “Not much. If they will give me all their orders and pay cash as they have to do with the catalogue mail-order houses, I’ll get ’em just as good stuff, and just as cheap. Some things they may buy cheaper, but they’re cheaper goods.” “Why do they do it, then?” “Because it’s the city, — it sounds better, somehow; and the catalogues make everything look so fine. Why, the other day a farmer came … [Read more...] about The Country Store

The Treasury is to name a quartet of new directors to the Bank of England's governing body as debate rages about the central bank's remit under a new Conservative prime minister. Sky News has learnt that Nadhim Zahawi, the chancellor, has signed off the appointments of four new members of the Court of the Bank of England, including the former investment banker Lord Jitesh Gadhia. Soumen Das, the finance chief of industrial property group Segro and a non-executive director of Next, and Sabine Chalmers, BT Group's general counsel, are also understood to be joining the central bank's board. The other appointee is said to be Tom Shropshire, Diageo's general counsel and company secretary, according to a source close to the process. The shake-up, which could be announced in the coming days, comes just weeks after the former Nationwide chairman David Roberts was named as the Court's next chair. Advertisement Mr Roberts will bring decades of experience in … [Read more...] about Treasury recruits Court quartet in Bank of England shake-up

SCHILLER’S MESSAGE TO MODERN LIFE KUNO FRANCKE HOWEVER widely opinions may differ as to the greatness of Schiller the writer, the thinker, the historian, or even the poet, there can be no difference of opinion as to the greatness of Schiller the apostle of the perfect life. His own life was filled by one central idea. Every line written by him, every deed done by him, proclaim the fact that he felt himself to be the bearer of a sacred message to humanity, and that the consciousness of this high office inspired, ennobled, hallowed his whole existence. It seems proper at the hundredth anniversary of the passing away of this great prophet briefly to define the message to the spreading of which he devoted his earthly career, and to ask ourselves what this message means to us of to-day. The central idea of Schiller’s literary activity is bound up with his conception of the beautiful. Beauty was to him something vastly more significant than the empirical conception of it as a quality … [Read more...] about The Schiller Anniversary: Schiller’s Message to Modern Life

WHENE’ER I take my walks abroad, I am fain to remark, not how many poor I see, for in that respect the cities of the United States do not appear unduly freighted, but rather how many and how potent are the street influences that tend to pauperize the soul. The school, the home; on these two foundations, we constantly are told, the welfare of this great republic rests; and that the assertion is far from being so much barren rhetoric is amply proved by the enormous sums spent on public education to a luxurious degree, and by the pure ideal of domesticity to which the private lives of candidates for high office at the people’s hands are required to testify. Many and admirable, also, are the schemes of public and private enterprise that seek to carry humanizing influences into the crowded tenement, bridging so far as they may the gap between the standards of the classroom and the illiterate or alien homes in which such vast numbers of the commonwealth’s schoolchildren dwell. But there … [Read more...] about Ethics of the Street: A Protest