All posts tagged: routes

Is Lying Always Wrong? Exploring Different Ethical Routes

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[ad_1] Published Feb 24, 2025written by Maysara Kamal, BA Philosophy & Film   Have you ever felt that telling the truth is morally overrated? There are certainly many situations where total transparency could trigger disastrous outcomes for all parties involved. Wouldn’t lying then be a moral duty in order to mitigate such negative consequences?  These questions are at the heart of the debate between moral absolutists and moral relativists.   To Lie or Not to Lie?  The Verdict, by Sora Shimazaki. Source: Pexels   Well, it depends. Kantian philosophers would tell you: “Absolutely not!”.  Advocates of ethical egoism would say: “Lie, but only if it serves your self-interest!”. Proponents of utilitarianism would encourage you to lie if it increases general happiness and decreases overall suffering. Each school of ethics has a unique foundation for issuing moral judgments. While there are countless formulations of what constitutes a right or wrong action, ethics is broadly divided into two main paradigms – moral absolutism and moral relativism.    Moral absolutism maintains that morality is based on universal principles …

Starmer’s Home Office immigration plan does not answer call for safe routes | Immigration and asylum

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[ad_1] Keir Starmer’s border plans, announced after a giddy week of political triumphs, attempt to address some of the deep structural problems within the Home Office. Paid for with £75m from the existing budget for the Rwanda scheme, the plans echo recommendations handed to Priti Patel two years ago: employ a single border security head who is given direct access to the home secretary. The border security commander would oversee a new body, with more investigators, which draws together the work of disparate agencies involved in disrupting people-smuggling gangs. Starmer’s announcement will not satisfy all critics of Labour’s immigration policies. The party has not yet answered the demands of refugee charities by offering new safe and legal routes for asylum seekers, leaving many people fleeing war and persecution with no alternative but to take small boats to cross the Channel. The Tories will continue to insist that Starmer offers little in the way of an eye-catching “deterrent” which is supposed to put asylum seekers off taking to the sea in dangerous small boats. Those with …

EU’s top diplomat condemns assault on Rafah as Israel halts aid routes – POLITICO

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[ad_1] Held-up cash The European Commission announced in March that it would continue to fund UNRWA, the U.N. relief agency for Palestine refugees, after Israel claimed in January that UNRWA staff were involved in the Oct. 7 attacks. However, parts of the financial support for the Palestinian territories and member countries’ contributions to the agency are still being held up. Borrell told reporters that “time has come” to restart full payments to UNWRA after a U.N.-commissioned review led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna found more than two weeks ago that the aid organization has established mechanisms and policies to ensure neutrality and “rapid and adequate responses to allegations.” The report stressed the lack of evidence provided by Israel to back the claims of staff involvement in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. Spanish, German and Belgian ministers have also supported the call to reintroduce full funding of the U.N. agency. “We are talking about civilians […] who may suffer more hunger due to the totally wrong decision of a government,” said Eva​ Granados Galiano, State …

NAHT mulls ‘legal and industrial routes’ to reform

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[ad_1] More from this theme Recent articles The NAHT school leaders’ union will explore “legal and industrial routes” to secure more radical Ofsted reform and “safeguard leaders’ lives”. General secretary Paul Whiteman today put the government “under notice” that his union would explore its options if it did not receive “meaningful answers” from ministers. The emergency motion, passed today at the union’s annual conference in Newport, comes after the government rejected calls to scrap single-phrase judgments. Leaders and MPs have demanded change after a coroner ruled in December that an Ofsted inspection contributed to the suicide of headteacher Ruth Perry. In its response to a Parliamentary education committee report, the Department for Education said the judgments were valued by parents, and scrapping them would lead to civil servants, politicians and the media “drawing their own conclusions” about schools. The motion stated that government “has effectively ignored the findings of coroner’s prevention of future deaths report by rejecting the select committee’s recommendations.  “Its tin-eared defence of discredited and reductive single-phrase judgments, and its unwillingness to enter …

L.A. Metro bus routes delayed as drivers stage sick-out over violence

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[ad_1] Dozens of Metro bus routes were delayed Friday after hundreds of drivers held a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults on operators. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority said as of midday Friday that about 360 operators had called out sick — about 10% of drivers — forcing the agency to redeploy instructors, field supervisors and those watching from control rooms to the driver’s seat. Unionized train and bus operators have criticized Metro for failing to respond forcefully enough to violence on the system. Drivers have been the target of several recent attacks, including one in Willowbrook where a man stabbed a bus driver while passengers watched. Last year, the agency logged 168 assaults, a slight increase from the previous year. The assaults included being spat on and stabbed. “We understand the sick-out affected a small percentage of bus riders,” John Ellis, who represents six union locals, said in a statement. The representative of 5,000 Metro bus and train operators for the International Assn. of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and …

Kent’s Europa to run routes on low-carbon fuel for DPD Netherlands

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[ad_1] Europa Road has signed a contract with DPD Netherlands to run new daily line hauls between the UK and Netherlands using cleaner fuel. Its vehicles will run exclusively on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO-100), replacing diesel. The transition comes as the EU and UK announce new targets for the road freight industry, calling for operators to reduce emissions 42 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030. Opened in 2015 close to the Dartford Crossing, Europa Road’s 26,368 sq m transit hub has seen a 15 per cent increase year on year in the volume of European road freight, and a record 40,000 consignments a month pass through the terminal. Stuart McKie, regional manager for Europa Road, explained how the company plans to adopt the use of HVO-100 on DPD movements. “Phase one of the implementation is for the ecommerce line hauls flowing from Netherlands (Eindhoven) to the UK (Hinckley)”, he said. “This consists of two trailers per day, five days a week. “We’ve committed to replacing 30,000 km worth of diesel fuel with HVO-100, a major …

Viking trails to vineyard tours: 10 of the best cycle routes in Denmark | The everyday wonders of Denmark

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[ad_1] Denmark is a haven for cyclists of all abilities, with 11,000km of marked cycle routes to ride. From adventurous cycling on multi-day trips that take in the country’s most varied scenery, to day trips and wine tours, these are the country’s best bike routes for everyone, from hobbyists to expert-level athletes. To make it extra easy, accommodation options line the routes, including simple campsites and shelters, run by the Danish Nature Agency and offered for free or almost free, as well as B&Bs and hotels especially set up for cyclists, with bike rooms, e-bike charging stations and rooms made available for fixing your bike as you go. Aktiv Danmark has a list of bike-friendly accommodation and there is also a group of Danish Bike Hotels that have bike facilities. Bike rental is available in major cities and towns all over the country. The Harbour Circle Start in Denmark’s capital with this 13km cycling route around the main harbour. It’s easy to fit into a short break, and takes in Copenhagen’s harbour swimming spots, waterside …

China Southern Airlines to add 17 international routes

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[ad_1] BEIJING: China Southern Airlines on Monday (Apr 1) launched its first flight between Beijing and Macau and said it plans to add 17 international routes, in a sign it expects a pick-up in international travel this year. The airline said at an event in Beijing the routes would be launched in the coming months before Oct 26. The new routes would include Amsterdam, London, Doha, Riyadh and Tehran, executives from the airline said. Macau, a special administrative region of China, is a popular tourist spot and the world’s biggest gambling hub. China’s international airline industry has recovered only slowly following the lifting of pandemic restrictions in early 2023, struggling to match gains in domestic travel as consumers remain price-sensitive in a sluggish economy. China Southern’s international route network has to date recovered to 80 per cent of 2019 levels, and the airline hopes the new routes will help take it to 85 per cent by the end of this year, Chen Ling, a deputy manager in China Southern’s north China marketing department, told reporters. …

Apple Maps May Gain Custom Routes With iOS 18

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[ad_1] Apple may be planning to add support for “custom routes” in Apple Maps in iOS 18, according to code reviewed by MacRumors. ‌Apple Maps‌ does not currently offer a way to input self-selected routes, with Maps users limited to Apple’s pre-selected options, but that may change in ‌iOS 18‌. Apple has pushed an ‌iOS 18‌ file to its maps back-end labeled “CustomRouteCreation.” While not much is revealed by the file except for the name, it does mention that this upcoming feature will be limited to the United States at launch. Custom routes would allow users to set what specific roads they want to travel down, whether for scenic purposes or for the familiarity of a route. Route options beyond the default have been a highly requested ‌Apple Maps‌ feature for several years now, and other services like Google Maps allow users to create custom routes on a computer and then view them on an iOS device. ‌iOS 18‌ will be introduced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, June 10. For more details about …