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...article - society matters] At Spain’s most recent general election in December 2015, the electorate voted overwhelmingly for change yet the results produced the most fragmented parliament since 1977. No party secured a majority, and none has since been able to form a government. The numbers simply don’t add up. The most obvious combination was an alliance between the...

...how we, or the NHS, may prosper outside the EU. Leaving the EU would not allow us to spend more money on the NHS. In reality, the likely effect of leaving would mean that there would be significantly less to spend on public services. But maybe that’s been the veiled agenda of the leave campaign all along. This article was originally published on Cost of Living website....

...service of education, they also remove a powerful symbol of community; one that lends both credibility and legitimacy to the board and its decisions. In so doing they risk the wholesale alienation of the very parents they frame as central to their education policy. [The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....

...or the observance of human rights. But in the face of increasingly restrictive border controls, the growing hostility of the European public and the continual erosion of refugee rights, it’s astounding to witness what the residents of Turin’s Olympic village have accomplished. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....

...property owners, meanwhile, accept the retention of controls because, without them, they’d be paying even more – to finance the Medicaid, food stamps and other subsidies that millions of tenants already need, as so much of their income goes towards housing cost. [The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original...

...years of personal investment of following a celebrity or a sportsperson, we could be wrong about them? Let’s face it, regardless of how much public information we receive about celebrities or how well we think we know sportspeople we won’t know what goes on “behind closed doors”. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....

...Carrying out this work, particularly in the fragmented and opaque system of educational accountability that exists in England today, demands the type of cultural and nuanced understanding of the English system that individuals outside of the UK are unlikely to possess. [The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....

...for class solidarity or broad appeals to racial justice and gender equality: they must be just as committed to changing the familiar white male face of progress. [The Conversation] Peter Bloom, Lecturer in Organisation Studies, Department of People and Organisation, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....