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...Community in 1973, under a Conservative government, it agreed to VAT on sanitary products being 17.5%. Following political pressure on the Treasury in the form of Early Day Motions from Labour MP Chris McCafferty and taken up by fellow Labour MP Dawn Primarolo in 2000, it was eventually reduced to 5%. When the VAT Directive was last negotiated in Brussels in 1991, the UK...

...community Some of those who came legally to the UK as part of the “Windrush generation”, many of whom are now elderly, have lost their jobs, homes, and bank accounts after being unable to demonstrate their legal status. They have been denied NHS services. They have been detained. And it’s likely that some have been deported. After The Guardian broke the story in...

...community takes over. In Part Four of the book, Sennett considers the timeframes in which the city is produced. Climate change is a long-term danger to the city and a ‘malign threat’ is particularly posed by water: we face an era of floods and droughts. Sennett proposes the ‘adaptive berm’ to think about how to plan for this new world – a flexible accommodation...

...communities, whether or not they were actually living with their participants or just they tended to live in the same areas and had interaction, but they would actually meet them as they were cycling to the university or to wherever they were working and they’d meet their participants rather than just it being once every three months you actually meet up and do a formal...

...Communities and Government: 2015) Out of sight, out of mind? This is all part of the changing reality of how homeless people of all nationalities are treated across the UK. Greater numbers of people are becoming homeless, while some police forces and local authorities are taking tough stances against people begging and sleeping rough, purporting to crack down on the...