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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...out of local areas or the wider cuts that are taking place in the period of austerity. Geoff Andrews: We are going to talk a bit about class later, you mentioned it. But it is really emotive language, isn’t it? What you are saying, it is part of a wider political strategy to, well, justify welfare policies. Owen Jones: Absolutely. And the culmination of this systematic...
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Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?
History & The Arts

Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?

...out of the question), the unfriendly, or rather the decidedly hostile feeling towards this country, which is still cherished by a large party in the United States of America. The same indefatigable spirit of mischief which provoked and sustained the late war [The War of 1812, which had endedthe the January 1815 Battle of New Orleans and the Treaty of Ghent ] has been,...
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How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?

...out help, while Rita remained inside the van. When she was found by a group of hunters just last week, she was nearly dead and had lost some 30lbs. Her husband remains to be found. This recent story of near complete starvation highlights the human ability to survive for long periods of time without sustenance. Due to obvious ethical concerns, there is not a whole lot of...
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Language variety all but disappears from the Eurovision song contest
Languages

Language variety all but disappears from the Eurovision song contest

...out of 60 contests 30 have been won by songs in English. What is probably one of the most famous Eurovision winners, ABBA’s Waterloo, was also sung in the English language. Perhaps because of this, the Eurovision rules regarding language have changed on a number of occasions. The final nail in the coffin for language landscape variety at Eurovision came in 1999, when...
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Who is Theresa May?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Theresa May?

...out uncomfortable truths in order to help her party win power. Under Duncan Smith’s successor, Michael Howard, May returned to the transport portfolio, before moving to culture, finally becoming shadow leader of the House of Commons in 2005 when David Cameron rose to the leadership. After a short stint as shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions, May took up her more...
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Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...out to foreign cultures, however goofily, is an act of curiosity and interest towards others. [The Ambassador to Italy Christopher Prentice at an event themed around the launch of SPECTRE] So, Mr Bond, you expect me to buy? The UK's ambassador to Rome at a launch event for the movie Spectre Often, films and music – magic tools of the so-called ‘soft power’ – have...
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Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?

...out-of-date and difficult to interpret. Prosecutions under the act have demonstrated that the public conception of what amounts to obscene behaviour is notoriously difficult to pin down. When the Crown Prosecution Service confidently prosecuted Michael Peacock in 2012 for producing DVDs featuring urination, fisting and sadomasochism, the jury found him not guilty –...
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How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?
Science, Maths & Technology

How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?

...out the idea that the Moon is simply a chunk of the Earth that broke loose. The details of how the Moon formed, and when, have long been debated. Now two new studies shed fresh light on the process – even pinning down a date. For more than 30 years, the prevailing view of the formation of our Moon has been the “giant impact hypothesis”. The precursors to the current...
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