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Economic globalisation draws states into polyalignment
At the January 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made headlines by openly acknowledging the demise of the ‘rules-based international order’. He urged ‘intermediate powers’ to work together to build institutions and interdependencies with like-minded countries. It is significant that a prominent Western leader made this argument, but Carney is late to the party. Amid intensifying US–China rivalry, many leaders have long been expressing similar views.
What Draws Them In: A Qualitative Examination of Teaching Motivations Using the FIT-Choice Framework
ABSTRACT Understanding what draws individuals to teaching is critical for effective recruitment in an era of teacher shortages. While research has extensively documented motivations using closed-ended surveys, less is known about what highly committed preservice teachers spontaneously articulate when given open-ended opportunities to express both their reasons for choosing teaching and the benefits they anticipate in the profession.
TAGG The Alternative Gig Guide Australia UK
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Richard Jones of Chesterfield Window Centre On 5 Things You Need To Run A Highly Successful Family Business
When running a family business, it’s all too easy for work to spill into every aspect of life — even family gatherings can become extensions of the office. One of the greatest advantages of working with loved ones is just that: sharing the journey with people who matter most. But it’s vital to nurture those personal relationships beyond the workplace. Without that balance, the warmth and closeness that define a family business can begin to fade.
Trump’s Tariff Gamble and the Decay of the Neoliberal Order
What meaning—if any—can we discern in President Trump’s decisions to impose, and then pause, tariffs on the entire world? And what does this mean for the future of world order? At the time of writing, Trump seems to be retreating from the most aggressive tariff actions, promising a new round of trade “deals,” including with China. Nonetheless, the economic and geopolitical shockwaves unleashed by “liberation day” have yet to subside.
LEE JONES QUINTET LIVE - PARIS CAT JAZZ CLUB, MELBOURNE
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Lee Jones Quintet (UK) LIVE @ Paris Cat Jazz Club
Lee Jones is a British jazz-rock guitarist and composer, combining influences from modern jazz, fusion, blues, avant-garde and rock styles. Lee has regularly performed throughout the UK and recorded/performed/studied alongside Larry Coryell, Martin Taylor and Mike Stern.
Lee Jones Quintet LIVE @ Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
Lee Jones is a British jazz-rock guitarist and composer, combining influences from modern jazz, fusion, blues, avant-garde and rock styles. Lee has regularly performed throughout the UK and recorded/performed/studied alongside Larry Coryell, Martin Taylor and Mike Stern. Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course in 2007, he has released seven solo albums which featured on Jazz FM radio with former WEA producer Simon Tittley.
Lee Jones Quintet LIVE @ Lazybones Lounge Restaurant & Bar, Sydney
Lee Jones is a British jazz-rock guitarist and composer combining influences from modern jazz fusion blues avant-garde and rock styles. Lee has regularly performed throughout the UK and worked alongside Larry Coryell Martin Taylor and Dennis Rollins. Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Course in 2007 (where he studied with Soft Machine bassist Fred T.
Free Personal Development courses for Premier Training students
Premier Training have unveiled their latest free online courses for AAT students. Developed to enhance students’ career prospects and employability, the new Personal Development courses are available to all existing and new Premier students. The series of short courses will again be helpful additions to students’ CVs to supplement their AAT accounting or bookkeeping qualifications – and aid career progression.
Sanctions won't save Ukraine
Unsurprisingly, the West has decided it won’t send its sons and daughters to die for Ukraine. Instead, it hopes to cripple Russia with economic sanctions. Will such measures bring about the end of the Russian invasion? Will Vladimir Putin scuttle back to the Kremlin with his tail between his legs? It seems unlikely. As the record of international conflict shows, sanctions rarely (if ever) work.
Systems approach to calving success
Lee Jones for Progressive Cattle Published on 24 January 2022 We often approach every calving season by addressing parts of the management or farm puzzle. And there is value in doing that. We need to make sure we know where our calving equipment is, it’s clean and ready for use, and we know how and when to use it. We need to watch body condition of our cow herd and nutrition prior to calving to make sure cows calve in good condition. That’s important for calf health and quality colostrum.
Welsh Director Lee Haven Jones on His Horror Film The Feast
In the Welsh language horror film, The Feast (2021), Cadi (Annes Elwy), a young woman serves privileged guests at a dinner party, hosted by Member of Parliament Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones) and his wife Glenda (Nia Roberts). Unbeknownst to the guests, the remote house in rural Wales will be the place they’ll eat their last meal. A trained actor turned director, The Feast is Lee Haven Jones’ directorial feature debut.
Does the government really care about academic freedom?
The disgraceful treatment of Professor Kathleen Stock – forced out of Sussex University by a sustained campaign of abuse and intimidation – has focused attention on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill making its way through parliament. Some have observed that the bill in its current form would not have protected Stock, calling for an amendment to ban students from agitating against their professors. Andrew Tettenborn has rightly criticised the idea of this so-called “Stock amendment”.
Experience Intense and Colorful Theyyam Fire Ceremony in Kerala India
I crouched down in front of a giant roaring fire about 4 am, camera in hand. The heat on my face and body was like nothing I had ever experienced. “Why am I so close?” I kept asking myself. Before I knew it, there was a huge glow and the heat intensified alarmingly fast like a punch in the face. As a result, my eyeballs strained from the heat. I quickly glanced up into the air to notice large, burning red embers dancing in the sky.
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Fractured China
Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented.
The myth of monolithic China
The West’s new Cold War with China has been brewing for over a decade. From Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” policy, through Trump’s trade war and now Biden’s push for “Build Back Better World” — a rival to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — the US has steadily been reorienting itself to confront Beijing, and increasingly dragging its Nato allies along with it.
COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state
Abstract Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed massive failures of governance at the global and national levels. Global health governance failed rapidly, with action quickly becoming nationally based, uncoordinated, and often zero-sum. However, domestic health governance also often fared very poorly, even in some of the wealthiest countries, which were ostensibly best-prepared to deal with a pandemic. Why?
Preliminary thoughts on the Myanmar “coup”
Early this morning, the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) seized control of state power. The picture is still very confused, and so the below is as much to try to work through my own thoughts as anything else. It’s not strictly a “coup” This may seem pedantic, but it’s not. A coup involves an armed takeover of state power that involves suspending the normal constitutional order.
White paper excerpt: The true cost of putting people second
Share this page Written by Lee Jones on 10 November 2020 in Opinion Opinion 'We are in unprecedented times.' That is the declaration that I have heard over and over for several months now- and it is usually the start of an announcement about cutbacks, site closures and redundancies. In many aspects, we are in unprecedented times. The complete change to social relationships and economic situations has turned the world upside down since March 2020.
Meet the Leaders: Wade Sira, Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan
REGINA -- A new presence in Saskatchewan’s political scene, Buffalo Party Leader Wade Sira says he came to lead to the party because of “how unfairly Saskatchewan has been treated in Confederation.” CTV News Regina Anchor Lee Jones sat down with Sira to find out more about the party formed from the Wexit movement, its platform and outlook for the future. Sask.
China's Belt and Road Initiative Is Not A Master Plan for World Dominance
Confrontation with China is reaching fever pitch in many Western countries. Clashes over trade, the South China Sea, COVID-19, and Huawei’s role in 5G development all signify a growing appetite for a new Cold War with Beijing. But while there are many good reasons to criticize China, there is also mounting danger that blanket Sinophobia generates distorted understandings of Chinese behavior, and knee-jerk policy reactions follow.
Mental Health and the Professoriate During the Pandemic
Lee Jones, James G. Martin Center August 24, 2020 John Roark/ Athens Banner-Herald via AP Remember the stereotype of the lazy college professor living an almost stress-free life while enjoying tenure, virtually a sinecure, often supported by taxpayer dollars? Tomes and articles identifying examples of this professor abound. Along with this job protection comes the opportunity to impose political correctness with impunity. Try telling that story to true contrarians.
Mental Health and the Professoriate During the Pandemic — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Remember the stereotype of the lazy college professor living an almost stress-free life while enjoying tenure, virtually a sinecure, often supported by taxpayer dollars? Tomes and articles identifying examples of this professor abound. Along with this job protection comes the opportunity to impose political correctness with impunity. Try telling that story to true contrarians. For an example, consider Michael Jay Shively, who taught biology for 26 years at Utah Valley University.
Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative
19 August 2020 Critics of the BRI accuse China of pursuing a policy of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: luring poor, developing countries into agreeing unsustainable loans to pursue infrastructure projects so that, when they experience financial difficulty, Beijing can seize the asset, thereby extending its strategic or military reach. This paper demonstrates that the evidence for such views is limited.
China’s Response to Threats to Its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony
Chinese firms have acquired enormous overseas interests since 2000. As relative latecomers to global markets, they often invest in territories subject to high political risk, which is often heightened by poorly regulated Chinese practices. This article describes these risks to China’s growing overseas economic interests and explores China’s response to them.
Transforming Britain After Brexit: Eddie Dempsey and the Divided Left
A response to criticisms of our recent London event from some on the left, and an invitation to further debate The Full Brexit co-organised the Transforming Britain After Brexit tour because we wanted to open up a space for discussion, within and beyond the Left, over Brexit and the nature of the European Union. In March we held events in Coventry, Manchester, Liverpool, and London, with an event in Durham to come next month and hopefully more dates in cities across the UK after that.
Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: beyond ‘grand strategy’ to a state transformation analysis
Lee Jones Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on the political economy of security, especially in the Asia-Pacific.
Working Class Britain: Hold Your Head High for Not “Making It”
Working class culture and heritage are things to be proud of What I hear more and more these days, whether from politicians, social commentators or just liberal facebookers, is this – “class doesn’t exist anymore”, “forget about class, it’s all about people” or “why are you always banging on about being working class?” But social relationships do not just skip in and out of existence depending on whether or not an individual self-identifies as being working class or upper class, or indeed...
Ten reasons that justify the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.
The EU is revealing itself to be little better than an aggressive bully when it does not get its way. Its attitude to the Brexit negotiations more than justifies our decision to leave. The EU is incapable of reforming itself. Remaining in the EU is the high-risk strategy – not leaving it Every day brings a new example of the EU’s failure to negotiate Brexit in good faith.
‘Illegal migration’ in Arakan: myths and numbers
One of the rationales underlying the persecution of the Rohingya by the Burmese state is that they are “illegal immigrants from Bangladesh”, having flooded Rakhine State (formerly known, and referred to here, as Arakan State) over the last century. But how valid are such claims in the face of available evidence?
Assessing the Rohingya crisis
When Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) triumphed at Myanmar’s 2015 general election she was riding high, supported by millions of hopeful citizens eager for change. Her party swept away its opponents from the former military regime and also garnered much approval from the country’s many minority groups.
Rohingya radicalisation in Malaysia: Where’s the evidence? - New Mandala
The attacks perpetrated by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017 sparked fears of wide-scale radicalisation within the Rohingya community. Such suspicions were fuelled by Islamist political actors across the Islamic world hailing the Rohingya cause. But such alarmist views are rarely backed by evidence or field research.
What can the world do for the Rohingya?
There has long been a lively debate about the origins of the Rohingya Muslims—and it’s far from clear-cut. Active Rohingya campaigning is a relatively recent phenomenon, aiming to establish a separate state in Myanmar rather than seek outright independence. Yet throughout time, the Rohingya and their political goals have not been taken seriously.
A better political economy of the Rohingya crisis
In the last few weeks, over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a bloody pogrom in Myanmar's Rakhine state, crossing into Bangladesh. Among the horrified and largely moralistic reactions in the West, some have pointed to economic factors supposedly behind these events. They are right to highlight the importance of political economy drivers of conflict, but their analysis is disappointingly superficial and crude. This post critiques their approaches and briefly outlines a better one.
A better political economy of the Rohingya crisis
In the last few weeks, over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a bloody pogrom in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, crossing into Bangladesh. Among the horrified and largely moralistic reactions in the West, some have pointed to economic factors supposedly behind these events. They are right to highlight the importance of political economy drivers of conflict, but their analysis is disappointingly superficial and crude. This post critiques their approaches and briefly outlines a better one.
Closed Rooms and Class War
Striding the world stage from January to July 2015, Yanis Varoufakis became the world’s most celebrified finance minister ever. His every pronouncement and lifestyle choice was floodlit in the international media. He shunned suits and limos, instead wearing leather jackets and riding a motorbike. He showcased his gym-enhanced biceps, artsy wife, and Acropolis-view apartment. He was dazzlingly articulate and delivered macroeconomic explanations to fellow finance ministers who did not want to know.
Shooting with ACROS Film Simulation in the Fujifilm X-Pro2
I hear a lot of photographers slamming others for not shooting RAW. So I decided to go against that for a month and shoot JPEG only using Fujifilm’s ACROS Film Simulation and share my results. Interestingly, I’ve found that I’m actually enjoying taking photographs more. I shoot almost exclusively with a Fuji X-Pro2.
Thailand mourns its king and heads into the unknown
After a prolonged illness, Thailand’s King Bhumibol has died at the age of 88. His long-anticipated passing will be mourned by many (but not all) Thais – and after Bhumibol’s 70-year reign, it will compound the country’s uncertainty and instability. The media is full of obituaries eulogising Bhumibol’s role in Thai society, stating he was “widely revered”, considered “semi-divine”, and was a “unifying” figure who regularly intervened to stabilise Thailand’s political system.
The questionable logic of international economic sanctions
Whatever the international crisis – whether inter-state war (Russia-Ukraine), civil strife (Syria), nuclear proliferation (North Korea), gross violations of human rights (Israel), or violent non-state actors on the rampage (ISIS, al-Qaeda) – governments, pundits and NGOs always seem to formulate the same response: impose economic sanctions. In the mid-20th century, only five countries were targeted by sanctions; by 2000, 50 were.
Thai junta turning tragedy to farce
In the aftermath of the Bangkok bombing, all we’ve seen is an investigation characterised by inconsistency and incompetency. As sympathetic as everyone must be towards the Thai and other victims of this week’s bombing at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine, we must also recognise that the Thai authorities’ response is turning a tragedy into a farce.
The Disorder Of Things
The following was originally posted on The Current Moment, a blog exploring contemporary politics and political economy in the West. Especially for those concerned with the Eurozone crisis and the impending British referendum on European Union membership, it is a must read! Recent events in Greece have baffled many observers. At the end of June, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras walked out of talks with Greece’s creditors, calling a snap referendum on their proposals. It appeared to be crunch time.
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