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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 29 Jun 2011
By John Booth
John Booth reviews Owen Jones' Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class and asks how the image of the bulldog breed turned into a narrative...
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Doing prison: Experiences of women in the UK prison system

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 22 Jun 2011
By Abigail Rowe
Does prison work for women inmates? Abigail Rowe spent time exploring the experiences of female prisoners to find out.
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OU on the BBC: Justice: Fairness And The Big Society

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Apr 2011
By The OpenLearn team
 Michael Sandel takes on the idea of fairness, and asks how it might apply to David Cameron's Big Society.
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Leaders' debate in the virtual world

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 16 Apr 2010
By The OpenLearn team
How did real-time mapping and Wordle clouds help make sense of the first 2010 General Election leaders' debate?
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