Our changing understanding of knowledge is something that PASCAL and its subscribers might want to give some thought to.  In the context of the forthcoming UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, our Chair in cooperation with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO has produced a brief, Open Science Beyond Open Access For and With Communities: A Step towards the Decolonisation of Science, which is featured below and attached.

‘Only connect’. Never was this injunction more fitting than today. I scan the material in this issue and realise how much each is part of an interwoven web. As Chris Brooks observes below, we see ‘how poorly policies are tied up into a coherent strategy: housing, education, skills and infrastructure are all conceived and implemented as separate and non-connected policies. If only one could find a clear beginning and untangle strands into a neat and orderly ball.  But there are too many ends and no free ends at all.