scholarly journals Moments of liberty. (Self-)censorship Games in the Essays of Virginia Woolf

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Pająk
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Personal Essays ◽  
Chilling Effect ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Women's Emancipation

What is surprising in Virginia Woolf’s essays is the scale and the audacity of her intellectual searches – in the time of increased repressive censorship and growing totalitarianisms, she approached the themes of freedom which have remained controversial ever since. The article presents the essayistic nature as a strategy applied by Woolf in her personal essays to avoid censorship, and intentionally expand the limits of freedoms important to her. The author offers an outline of the mechanism of repressive censorship and the chilling effect it worked in the interwar United Kingdom based on the examples of suspensions of outstanding modernist works and show-trials of writers. She presents three areas of study of freedom in Woolf’s essays: women’s emancipation, tolerance towards non-heteronormative persons, and pacifism, as well as the areas of private and public (self-)censorship which existed therein.

The United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 474-488
Author(s):  
Martin Johnes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Private And Public

The United Kingdom played a key role in the development of many of the ideas central to the modern Christmas. However, British festive practices always varied by class, gender, region, and the four nations of the United Kingdom. Some of these variations lessened in the second half of the twentieth century due to the rise of affluence and the growth of a mass media. Indeed, Christmas in modern Britain came to be an integrative experience. It brought people closer to their family, friends, neighbours, community, compatriots and, occasionally, the poor and suffering. It crossed any notional boundaries between the private and public spheres and helped maintain a common way of life in a society divided by class, ethnicity, and taste. Christmas thus came to be viewed as part of a British way of life, even if variations remained in the precise ways people celebrated.

scholarly journals Are Corporate Governance Code Disclosure and Engagement Principles Effective Vehicles for Corporate Accountability? The United Kingdom as a Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 177-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gill North
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Corporate Governance Code ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private And Public

Disclosure and engagement principles are included in every corporate governance code, reflecting a critical emphasis on communication as a vehicle for corporate accountability. These communication principles have been a focus of reform worldwide, prompted by shifts in financial market and social expectations of corporations. The article examines the disclosure and engagement provisions in the Corporate Governance Code in the United Kingdom (and the proposed reforms to these provisions) as a case study. The proposed initiatives seek to strengthen the voice of employees and enhance disclosure around environmental and social concerns. However, this article contends that the gains achieved from these reforms may be marginal due to structural deficiencies. The incremental disclosure and engagement obligations are expected to be flexible and loosely phrased, with a negligible probability of significant market consequences or regulatory intervention. Moreover, most substantive corporate communication will continue to occur at private forums between directors and selected institutional investors. In financial markets with these regulatory settings, effective governance mechanisms to ensure broad and independent accountability of corporations are lacking or weak. Indeed, these legal structures encourage and legitimise carefully differentiated private and public communication channels, with the public discourse used to present a sparkling company image. Policy makers need to re-consider their reliance on private forums to improve governance standards and ensure that public communication frameworks are inclusive, responsive, probative and enforced. In this way, company law will start to meet the growing calls for corporates to act as responsible citizens.

scholarly journals Independent Community Archives: Challenging the Status Quo of Private and Public Archives

Atlanti ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-215
Author(s):  
Anne J. Gilliland ◽  
Tamara Štefanac
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North America ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Community Archives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Public Archives

The community archives movement has emerged as a prominent, and often critical, presence within, and also outside the archival traditions and practices in North America and the United Kingdom. They can take many forms and often contest how both public and private archives in these regions have historically been understood, structured and operated. This paper first presents a brief review of some of the ways in which community archives have been framed in the archival literature. It then considers several questions regarding how such framings of community archives might challenge the status quo of private and public archives as currently defined and organized under the recently revised Croatian legislative framework and proposes a more conciliatory approach.

scholarly journals Az orvosi hálapénz megoldásának történelmi kulcsa

2019 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Péter Balázs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health System ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Real Solution ◽  
Public Financing ◽  
Informal Payment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Developed World

Abstract: There is no nation in the developed world without dysfunctions of its health care system. The cause behind is universal since it goes back to the historic conflict of private and public financing of services. Phenomena on the surface are multi-faceted, in Hungary they are concentrated in the doctors’ informal payment the original pattern of which was emerging three centuries ago. While neglecting our series of mismanagement, all our new initiatives will disable any real solution. The world’s best health system models in Germany and the United Kingdom function without informal payment. Their substantial models compromise private and public financing. Instead of questionable ideas, Hungary needs to find its own relevant solution based on a new deal with the society but it must have a firm base of scientific evidences. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(2): 50–56.

scholarly journals Quality Personnel the Bane of the University Students Participation in National Competition?: The Case of Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Janet Chumba ◽  
Simon Munayi ◽  
Jacob S. Nteere
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
University Students ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
National Competition ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
International Sport

Kenyan university students have performed relatively poorly compared to their counterparts in Australia and the United Kingdom when it has come to International sports participations. Could this be attributed to the personnel handling sports at the Kenyan Universities? This study went out to look at the perceptions of the students participating in sports at public and private universities in Kenya. Further, the study went out to look at the qualifications and quantification of personnel in both private and public universities in Kenya. The study used a descriptive research design. A questionnaire was used on 268 students responded. An interview schedule was used on 10 directors and chairmen of sports directorates and departments. A further 28 sports personnel in public and private universities in Kenya were also used in the study. The results indicate that personnel in Kenyan University had diverse field of training. There was need to arrest this diversity and create a more focused sports trained personnel if the Kenyan university expect to make the same impact as that of Australia and the United Kingdom in international sport. Results also show that private universities in Kenya have better and available personnel than the public universities.

Part III Regulation of Financial Products, 6 Securities Offerings

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arner Douglas W ◽  
Hsu Berry FC ◽  
Goo Say H ◽  
Johnstone Syren ◽  
Lejot Paul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private And Public

This chapter looks at financial products and their regulation in relation to listings of securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK). Hong Kong’s system for listing and public offerings of securities is largely based on the pre-FSMA 2000 system of the United Kingdom. As such, it is based on a statutory framework established by the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (CWUMPO) and the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO). The chapter explains how non-statutory controls on offers of securities fall into two broad classes: securities to be admitted to listing and those which are not to be listed. The legal and regulatory framework of Hong Kong addressing public offerings and listings of company securities covers: private and public companies; public offerings and prospectus requirements; the means by which a company’s securities can become listed; preparation of prospectuses and listing documents; and continuing obligations of being listed.

Mixing Private and Public Treatment in the UK’s National Health Service: A Challenge to Core Constitutional Principles?

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Syrett
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Free Care ◽  
Private And Public

AbstractThe question of whether those patients who privately purchase treatments which are not available on the National Health Service should, as a consequence, lose entitlement to free care for their condition has proved highly controversial in the United Kingdom. This article considers the debate upon this issue. It focuses in particular upon the degree to which the solution adopted conflicts with the foundational principles of the National Health Service which have recently been enshrined in the NHS Constitution.

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