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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...public church that was lobbying for heavy restrictions on philosophical research and a crackdown on dissenting views. In the cities, a wealthy merchant class-controlled trade and politics, and the country’s “Golden Age” was far from evenly distributed. And while in theory the relatively new country was a republic, in practice its head of state had at times been the...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...public-sector sinecures. [An oil field within the Arabian desert near Dubai, UAE.] An oil field within the Arabian Desert, near Dubai. This state of affairs is a central tenet of the Arabian Gulf social contract, in which citizens of the six gulf states mostly occupy bureaucratic public sector positions administering an oil-based economy with expatriate labour dominating...
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What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?

...public, makes for uncomfortable politics for any UK government already struggling with allegations of complicity in torture with the USA, where the public is sceptical of involvement in overseas conflicts, and where relations with authoritarian states such as Russia remain – despite hopes of easing relations – tense. That leaves the British government facing three...
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Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...public policy) to set up a false standard for judging the value of economists’ expertise. The value of economic analysis is not for use as some modern-day equivalent of consulting the tea leaves or the Delphic oracle to learn what precisely Fate has in store for us. Rather economic models are valuable in helping us discern the causal mechanisms at play and simulate how...
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The case for and against a second referendum
Society, Politics & Law

The case for and against a second referendum

...public opinion. It is ultimately a core element of any liberal democracy that voters have the right to change their mind or review key political decisions if circumstances appear to have changed. An argument often cited by opponents of Brexit is that the vote of June 2016 indicated a somewhat narrow desire for “departure” from the EU, but it did not endorse what the...
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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...publication). Certain clear patterns emerge in Lee’s reading over this 11 month period. First: the majority of her reading was in French (37 of 60 titles, or 62%); despite this, all the entries in the commonplace book are in English (an implicit act of translation takes place her between reading and first written response). Second: both Russian and Norwegian literature...
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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...public gatherings. Although recently, over the last few days, the state of Kerala has been reporting a significant drop in the infections with a higher recovery rate, thus giving initial signals of success in bringing the reproduction number much below the national average. Our results indicate that there is an immediate need for the administrators to mobilise resources...
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Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...public events and projects, served to get me more interested in the conflict. I think it may have been a passing mention in a lecture about interwar popular culture – something about soldiers chewing gum and smoking cigarettes in wartime having a lasting influence. That was the catalyst, and I began to delve deeper into the topic, looking for smoking in novels and...
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