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...circulating a fake, photo-shopped picture of Marco Rubio shaking hands with President Obama. In past elections, those unseemly tactics might have worked, but not this time around. In South Carolina both Trump and Rubio repeatedly called Cruz a cheater and a liar. The attacks drew blood because of Cruz’s long-standing reputation for arrogance and abrasiveness. Even his...

...circulating: “Assad is winning”. But the Assad regime has only survived because of the political, economic and military life support it’s had from Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. It is now entirely dependent on them. And that’s for rule over just a part of Syria. The opposition, though very dependent on Turkish protection, holds much of the north-west, and it also –...

...circulation of different models for transforming cities or the sharing of templates for urban change. Alongside these more formal attempts to redirect urban processes there are also a great many less formal practices through which other agencies seek to bring about change or to resist the changes that are being imposed upon them. These include grass-roots associations and...

...circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of industrial action by nurses, mainly women, in Scotland over the last fifty years. Strike action by nurses in Scotland has...