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Has Donald Trump improved the US economy in fifty days?
Money & Business

Has Donald Trump improved the US economy in fifty days?

...2, 2017 Here, Trump is referring to the S&P 500 Index and the newly released February 2017 Consumer Confidence Survey. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500) is commonly accepted as an accurate indicator of equity performance, being based on 500 stocks selected by analysts considering a number of factors such as market size and sector weight. The S&P 500 has gone up...
Brexit and the Art of Negotiation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and the Art of Negotiation

...2-year negotiation process. The danger is that Brexit negotiations will default to a lose-lose situation unless the common ground necessary for win-win can be found. So what could be done to give the Brexit negotiations the best start? To begin with it is important to set the correct tone. This may involve suggesting that conversations from the past are put to one side,...
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...2. Human rights must be for everyone In the UK today, many human rights have become dependent upon documentation and status and this has mostly become socially acceptable. In the latest review of the UK by the UN Human Rights Council, many concerns were raised about the effects of migration control. Policies are putting human rights out of reach for some in the UK. For...
No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals
Health, Sports & Psychology

No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals

...2. Certain bodies are sexy and sexual, others aren’t People are encouraged to engage in surveillance and disciplining of their bodies in order to have a sexy appearance, and to perform sexually. From the images found throughout mainstream sex advice it’s clear that older bodies, disabled bodies, and fat bodies are not deemed sexual given that they are absent or – if...
Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...2 matches a week, which are often highly pressurised, intense affairs and sometimes involving travel across Europe. Added to this there are additional pressures and regulations imposed due to the global pandemic. Some players may be thinking they would rather be resting up on a beach in Portugal than playing in a major football tournament this summer. Remarkably, most of...
A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...2 600 era of Greek science, based on philosophy (Aristotle, Pythagoras) 1 000 Chinese invented printing 700 experimental science of William of Occam 500 Earth orbits the Sun (Copernicus) first printing press (Caxton) 400 circulation of blood (Harvey) 300 theory of gravity (Newton); invention of telescope 200 Industrial Revolution (in Britain) 150 Theory of evolution by...
War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...2 August, a Sunday, in Trafalgar Square, organised by Socialists and trade unions. The demonstration was disturbed, and seemingly taken over, by patriotic pro-war factions. Among the crowds, so The Times reported, were many poor people, and also foreigners, including German and French, who ‘fortunately’ did not come to blows with each other. The strong anti-Socialist...
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Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...2 years of the policy has been mixed. First, the numbers affected have been smaller than projected and these numbers have fallen quite rapidly to around 23,000 capped households in February 2015, in part because people have indeed moved into in-work benefits and in part because individual circumstances change. In that context the government has been able to claim success...