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Who is Theresa May?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Theresa May?

...cast herself, not just since the referendum vote, but since her arrival in parliament, as a steady pair of hands. She will need to live up to that reputation in a political environment which is unpredictable and tumultuous. The lack of a longer leadership campaign means that May has not been pressured on any of her policies, nor has she had the opportunity to explain and...
Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...cast of devious characters – headed by a German-born lawyer and including the nephew of the Greek prime minister and his astrologer, a music hall artist, a crooked judge, and a gunrunner. Shareholders were systematically deceived by “solicitors and accountants who could not be trusted to add up the pennies in a child’s piggy bank.” “On top of the fraud, bribery...
Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
Society, Politics & Law

Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...casting Professor-type predicts that ‘in the future we’ll all be living underground eating minute floating plants’, and I should say that that’s his optimistic scenario. But the lighthearted moments are few and far between in TV coverage of population. From the 1960s onwards, broadcasters tended to frame it as a current problem and future menacing threat. The...
World Cup 2023: is it a case of USA or England?
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Cup 2023: is it a case of USA or England?

...cast and home advantage will ensure that the Matildas go a long way in this tournament. Will I be able to watch the games? Despite some fears that the games may not receive television coverage in the UK, it has been agreed that the BBC and ITV will show all 64 games of the tournament. Although there is a significant time differential between the UK and Australia/New...
English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...casting of dogs. . . . your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. See you, my princes and my noble peers, These English monsters! They are ‘monsters’ because they are like the dogs that have become so deeply associated with the cruel misuse of authority. The tragic history of the hero of Coriolanus (1607), described as ‘a very...
Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...cast: British people have voted for a government that has promised to hold a referendum on the UK’s EU membership by 2017. This week, business has intervened to liven up the debate. The country’s main industry lobby group wants its members to make a decisive contribution to the pro-EU campaign, but what has become clear in recent days is that there will be a far more...
Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...casts some doubt on this, but let us imagine it were true. Many of us would find this distasteful, or even objectionable. Peter Sutcliffe, who was convicted of the crimes in 1981, butchered thirteen women between 1975 and 1980. It just seems wrong for people to visit the scenes of this suffering for the purposes of entertainment. However, we seem not to have the same...
Race and place
History & The Arts

Race and place

...caste and intellectualise on the 'mixed race problem’ I have to tell you: take your beady eyes offa my skin; don't concern yourself with the ‘dialectics of mixtures'; don't pull that strange blood crap on me Great White Mother. Say, I'm no mating of a she-ass and a stallion no half of this and half of that to put it plainly purely I am Black My blood flows evenly,...
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