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Overfunding: Classlist Returns to Crowdcube & Quickly Raises More Than £530,000     Less than five years after raising £837,160 through its previous Crowdcube campaign, virtual school-gate community,  Classlist, has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform and has already doubled its initial £250,000 funding target. The funding round has already attracted nearly 540 Crowdcube investors. As previously reported, Classlist enables parent communities to work together on a wide range of fa...

dimorphic continuum is mashed into a binary categorisation. Some pretty shitty treatment of people who might not be close to one of the poles, when only transwomen are supposed to be treated shittily. The earth has two geographic poles. But almost nobody is at the "north pole" or the "south pole". weka … are you saying that you believe sex is a spectrum that sits between two poles? By all means talk about the fairness with Semenya. I havent looked at her situation close...

Building study: Lambeth Palace Library by Wright & Wright Projects seldom come so freighted with history or as laden with expectation as Lambeth Palace Library, which was recently completed to stringent specifications, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Lambeth Palace’s Wright & Wright-designed £23.5 million national library and archive for the Church of England has long been anticipated. Now due to open formally on a yet-to-be-announced date later this year, it was one of the AJ’s to...

Click the thumbs up > Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, some dealerships are continuing to hire staff and, for safety reasons, many have been forced to move all or part of the process online. That has been extended to onboarding new employees remotely, driven by the need for social distancing, home working and the rise of video conferencing. While it’s not always feasible to do some aspects digitally, many dealers have already transferred their entire onboarding process to online. Drayton Mot...

Guarding the apocalypse: inside the fortress of the new Lambeth Palace Library Oliver Wainwright © Provided by The Guardian One of the Library’s treasures, now in a suitably armoured home. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian A dangerous-looking porcupine scuttles across the bottom of a page of a medieval manuscript, amid scenes of fire-breathing dragons, bodies bubbling in cauldrons, and boats deluged by biblical floods. Known as the Lambeth Apocalypse , this 13th-century il...

While it’s impossible to reduce this year to six books, the selection of works we have chosen for him covers some of the most topical issues of 2020 — coronavirus, climate change, Aboriginal lives matter, migration, female workforce participation, and recession — all in personal and powerful ways. How The Dark Gets In, by Clare Wright Meanjin truly captures the sense of lockdown for Victorians, and reflects on the impact of the coronavirusmore broadly on Australia’s narrative. It articu...