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Ivory: a tough choice, but bans aren’t working

Ivory: a tough choice, but bans aren’t working

by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2018 | Features, Politics & Law

In the wake of Michael Gove’s announcement that Britain is to tighten its laws on ivory exports, Professor Keith Somerville questions the value of bans that have no machinery in place to back them up. The environment sectary, Michael Gove, has announced that...
Politics, history and the teaching World War One

Politics, history and the teaching World War One

by aseifert | Jan 14, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics

Last week Education Secretary, Michael Gove ignited a new row claiming that the television comedy Blackadder fed ‘left-wing’ myths about World War One.  In the Daily Mail Gove argued that ‘The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also...

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