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Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?
Society, Politics & Law

Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?

...social causes linked to Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and its affiliates, collectively termed the Sangh Parivar. Many members of the diaspora are influential in their communities in India. It is this group that Modi was wooing at Wembley and we can be sure that clips from the jamboree will be played in the build-up to future Indian elections. So, as the UK woos India,...
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Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...Circuit’, Journal of Intercultural Studies 29 (1): 7-20. Salvi del Pero, A. and Bytchkova, A. (2013) A Bird's Eye View of Gender Differences in Education in OECD Countries. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 149, OECD Publishing. UNDP, (2013) Human Development Report, New York. World Bank, (2011) Global Development Horizons, Washington DC....
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Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?
Money & Business

Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?

...social construct. People will pay what they think is appropriate, if they can afford it. Apple has traditionally pushed the boundaries of customer sense of pricing appropriateness. In terms of affordability, in countries where mobile operators offer package deals, the incremental cost over the $699 iPhone 7 for example will amount to a couple of cups of coffee per month....
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Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
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Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights

...social issues. Even if Brexit left the UK free to dismantle employment rights, a Conservative government wishing to be re-elected might see little political advantage in removing rights to parental leave or allowing employers to discriminate against people because of their religion or sexual orientation. It is highly likely, however, that the EU’s working-time...
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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...social network sites that a company doesn’t want to see used in work hours. A popular trick is to scan the contents of data packets via deep packet inspection and deciding how this traffic may be handled as a general rule. Services such as Skype for example, are often an unpopular use of corporate network traffic as, in Skype’s case, it shares the services of a...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...social equality that we hold dear today. The cast of assembled characters – Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary’s step-sister Claire Clairmont, and Byron’s personal physician John Polidori – were living embodiments of the liberal ideals that were causing such an affront to the conservative and patrician values of the ruling classes in the early...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...social codes. As with the rope trick, the car wash is a clear, everyday image. At the same time, it stands for complex ideas about public and private lives. [Photograph: inside a car wash] ... and between expression and suppression ‘“Say nothing” is still a powerful rule in Northern Ireland’, Bryce tells Alex Pryce: it’s difficult to be outspoken in tight-knit...
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Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...social realities on the ground. The ability of western powers to bestow or withhold statehood has been held responsible for ongoing instability and massive population displacement. For example, many argue that the contemporary turmoil in the Middle East region has its origins in French and British colonial policy. The British government estimates that, as of 2022, there...
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