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09 June 2024
Pádraig Rice elected as a member of Cork City Council
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Pádraig Rice has been elected as a member of Cork City Council for the Social Democrats in Ireland.

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02 February 2026

New project to advance global child online safety

As global policymakers grapple with the urgent question of how best to safeguard minors in online environments, a new project from the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy launched today aims to address these challenges in partnership with the Oxford Internet Institute.

Digital, Cyber and AI
Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy
Billionaire backlash book
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29 January 2026

New book by Pepper Culpepper on how corporate scandals could save democracy

In their new book Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy, Blavatnik’s Vice Dean Professor Pepper Culpepper and Professor Taeku Lee of Harvard University argue that the shared anger that follows major corporate scandals can be channeled into a backlash with the potential to reinvigorate failing democracies.

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28 January 2026

The UK needs to rethink their approach to a changing global economic order, argues Heywood Fellow

Heywood Fellow Jenny Bates sets out the aims of her year-long Fellowship, which is focused on developing a refreshed UK strategy for navigating a changing global economic order.

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United Kingdom (UK)
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