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Clickety Clack: a railway poem
Society, Politics & Law

Clickety Clack: a railway poem

...world war, sitting in front of a cargo vehicle, uniform, wearing a cap and smiling.]Clickety Clack Clickety Clack The rhythm of the railway track. With all the men folk off to war. It’s women left to do the chores Corsets and skirts are cast aside Whistles, trousers, gold buttons worn with pride. Clickety Clack Clickety Clack The rhythm of the railway track With the...
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The budget warns about danger ahead
Money & Business

The budget warns about danger ahead

...world. Instead, we are now consumed with the unproductive and embarrassing talk of an ‘Exit bill’ which we need to agree with our former partners before even contemplating a one-to-one trade deal with the rest of the world. But then Hammond set aside a further £3 billion to prepare for Brexit. Is this supposed to cheer us up when Brexit-related ‘insurance’...
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Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...world - they can be either good or bad. Whatever their choice, they will face the consequences of their actions in the after-life. The good people and their good deeds will be rewarded in Paradise, while the bad people and their bad deeds will be cruelly and eternally punished in hell. The concept of hell as a destination of punishment and a consequence of sin, invites a...
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Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...world go by, no A-levels to her name and having graduated GCSEs during COVID-19, feeling as if there was no academic future for her. ‘I felt hopeless, but now I’m about to begin my second year with The Open University, studying an open degree that focuses on Chinese, linguistics, and English literature,’ she enthused. It was starting that degree in 2024 that...
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Happy New Year
Miscellaneous

Happy New Year

...world are you headed? Beginners' Spanish: Food and Drink Intermediate German: The World of Work Beginners' Italian: Food and Drink Get ready for beginners' French Go greener and help the planet We can all contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental harms which result from burning fossil fuels, and other day-to-day services. Here are some helpful...
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...world and respond to it. He has inspired a determined, multifarious and playful approach to the process of finding a voice, contemplating fantasy worlds, investigating modes of performance and wrestling with the concept of identity. Bowie’s exploration of feelings of estrangement and his embodiment of alien creatures from the outer cosmos speak to all of us who, for...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...world are integrally linked. The empirical evidence for this linkage is now copious. For example, using the largest extant database on the status of women in the world today, my colleagues and I found that the best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy or its ethno-religious identity. The best predictor of a state’s...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...worlds. Their work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the margins and across the borders of different worlds.Raymond Williams’s early experiences in his village close to the Wales-England border were recurring themes in both his fiction and non-fiction...
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