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Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen

...World, whether this is overcoming abuse, appeasing political troubles, embracing motherhood or being role models, women’s sport in Britain is continuing to grow and inspire future generations of women to take part and compete at all levels. Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course The challenges facing women in sport Study with the OU...
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Brexit and the Art of Negotiation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and the Art of Negotiation

...free movement of goods, capital, services, and labour. The free movement of labour is what underpins many of the rights allowing the citizens of other European countries to live and work in the UK, and what allows UK citizens to live and work in Europe. But – importantly – the EU is currently arguing that these four freedoms are indivisible; the UK cannot...
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...free movement and Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech. Following the referendum, our findings have taken on a greater resonance. Britain’s struggle to come to terms with immigration is starting to look like a case of history repeating itself. Both in the 1960s and now, the UK encouraged immigration, failed to manage it properly and then tried to deconstruct free...
Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
Society, Politics & Law

Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation

...free, much fairer and socially just society. Poverty in Scotland 2016 is published by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland; The Open University in Scotland, Glasgow Caledonian University and the Poverty Alliance, and draws together the expertise of academics, anti-poverty campaigners and other experts from across health, education, housing and local...
What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...course, was true of his opponent in the run-off vote: Marine Le Pen. Where these two candidates also differed markedly, therefore, was on their attitude to how the UK should leave the EU. During the tetchy drama of the presidential TV debate, Macron was at pains to explain to Le Pen that leaving the EU – which she had threatened to do by calling a British-style In/Out...