Jamie Roberts

1 month ago | lexology.com | Katie Vickery |Peter Rudd-Clarke |Anna Doyle Lundy |Veronica Webster Celda |Thomas Stables |Jamie Roberts

UK updates: Product Regulation and Metrology | Age verification for knife retailers | Domestic furniture fire safety | Device manufacture guide on forensic visibility | Reforms Construction product safety reforms | EU updates: EC toolbox for safe and sustainable e-commerce Product sustainability: UK updates: Deposit return scheme regulations | Digital waste tracking delayed | Simpler recycling rules | EU updates: Provisionally agreed rules on textile and food reduction | EU Competitiveness...

Jul 4, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Jamie Roberts

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Jul 4, 2024 | theconversation.com | Jamie Roberts

Quoting The Art of War, an ancient Chinese war manual dating from the 5th century BCE, has become a cliché. It is, alas, the hallmark of teen edgelords, management gurus and, as one of my students informed me, pseudo-intellectual boyfriends. Because of all this, the book has become part of the endless layers of irony that are the bedrock of internet culture.

Feb 4, 2023 | scroll.in | Jamie Roberts

Drugs are nothing new. As researchers Russil Durrant and Jo Thakker tell us in their 2003 book Substance Use & Abuse, drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, opium and cannabis have been used for thousands of years throughout the world. They also show we have known about addiction for a long time – the addictive nature of opium was familiar to Greek and Roman physicians. But the addict as a cultural figure is more recent: an archetype thrown up by modernity.

Feb 3, 2023 | dailybulletin.com.au | Jamie Roberts

Drugs are nothing new. As researchers Russil Durrant and Jo Thakker tell us in their 2003 book Substance Use & Abuse, drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, opium and cannabis have been used for thousands of years throughout the world. They also show we have known about addiction for a long time – the addictive nature of opium was familiar to Greek and Roman physicians. But the addict as a cultural figure is more recent: an archetype thrown up by modernity.