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Top Stories: 17th June
16th June 2022
Boris Reads the New Testament at the Jubilee Service
9th June 2022
‘Whatever is Noble, if Anything I do is Excellent or Praiseworthy, think about such things”
To what extent would time travel be ethical?
9th June 2022
Imagine it’s 100 years in the future, and the invention of time travel has just been perfected. Not just sending a clock into orbit, or the irritating ‘well actually, if we all went to sleep for a really long time, we would technically be time travelling’, but proper Doctor Who style time travel: the ability to arrive at whatever time we wish, whenever we wish. What would we do with it? There are numerous possibilities, yet without the actual existence of time travel, it’s impossible to know how well thought-out they are, how useful they’d be to us or even how ethical any of them truly are. But we can still try to explore a few.
Is Happiness the Key to the Success of Countries?
9th June 2022
Today, the majority of countries around the world rate their success in terms of their economic status, measured by GDP (or GDP per capita). However, surely this is not the only way to define whether a country is successful. This is the thinking behind the forming of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index (GNH), invented by King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, of Bhutan, in the 1970s. It is a philosophy that comes from the country’s roots in Buddhism and guides the governing and policy making of Bhutan. It is an index to gauge the collective happiness and wellbeing of a population. In 1972 Bhutan declared it as being more important than GDP, and in a 2011 UN general assembly, members were urged to follow the example of Bhutan, saying happiness was a ‘fundamental human goal’.
Getting to Know the 2022-23 SLT: School Transitions
9th June 2022
I decided to sit down with (or, rather, phone) the individual members to get an insight into their thinking, their visions, and their expectations of the year ahead. It was a truly eye-opening experience, and I’m thrilled to present the outcomes of the discussion with Josie, the School Transitions rep.