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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer survey (2016) suggests a third of smartphone users don’t actually make traditional voice calls at all. Instead, our phones are used as mobile computers, for checking...
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...adults are learning English in the workplace or in their free time. A 'wave of English' is now building up. Within a decade nearly a third of the world population will all be trying to learn English at the same time. But looking further ahead, the wave of learners may subside almost as quickly as it came. If the project to make English a second language for the world's...
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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...for a party or group other than Labour, or opposed to Labour” is enough proof to have you expelled, then we had all better be careful about praising so much as the individual policies of another party. That could go for Liz Kendall’s supporters just as much as Jeremy Corbyn’s. This article is a personal viewpoint, and was originally published at OpenDemocracy....
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The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...care about. Perhaps it’s time for the media professionals to catch up with the candidates and start listening to what average Americans want to hear. [Rand Paul] Rand Paul Issues ignored: housing and inequality Mechele Dickerson, University of Texas at Austin Other than the fact that they attacked the moderators more than they attacked each other, perhaps the biggest...
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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...cares anymore about recognising its special status as a former member state or great power. Especially if it uses as a bargaining chip the threat of a race to the bottom on such policies as corporate taxation, the continent’s willingness to cut it slack will swiftly diminish. This would be freeriding in its purest form and represent an admission that the UK has...
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Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?
History & The Arts

Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?

...care, access to bathrooms and employment and housing because of all of these…misconceptions that people have about who we really are.” [The Conversation]As the future of thousands of active duty service members hangs in the balance, it’s more imperative than ever to understand how the public responds to media representations of transgender people. This article was...
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What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...care, the children – who were EU citizens – would not be able to remain in the EU. Another troubling part of the settlement scheme is its provisions on criminality checks. They do not currently comply with EU case law applying Article 28, Directive 2004/38 which protects EU citizens against expulsion. The Court of Justice of the EU states that having a criminal...
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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...careful to point out that as the cause of death is unknown in most cases then it is not possible to infer a correlation of one to the other. Suicides linked to denied benefits The website Calum’s List estimates that over 60 people have committed suicide as a direct result of being denied access to benefits. They include: 38-year old Elaine Morrall who died in her...
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