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...education, the arts and sports. They play a key role in challenging the government and can help to champion your cause as they often have more freedom from party politics than MPs. Lords don’t represent a particular constituency but speak out on issues that interest them/they are expert in. You can search for members of the Lords online whose policy interests and...

...technology – both HG Wells and EM Forster (to name but two) had already depicted future societies in which people’s lives are ruled by machines and other technologies. Other critics have argued that as a work of literature some of Orwell’s characterisation is thin. But does this matter? Most people would say ‘no’ because of the sheer power of the novel:...

...educational, historical and spiritual issues raised by forced migration. “A dog is for life, not just for Christmas”, proclaims the familiar car-bumper sticker. Accepting refugees and migrants into one’s country is not an analgesic against an ephemeral bout of remorse – and it should not be used by governments to temporarily appease their electorates.[The...

...education; ICT; oil, gas and energy; pharmaceuticals; shipbuilding and repairs; sport and leisure; and, tourism sectors. In other words, what is termed a modern knowledge economy; In population size terms, it would be about two million smaller than the Netherlands and three million bigger than Belgium; Its total national income would be about 15% smaller than the former...