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The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough
Society, Politics & Law

The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough

...project to ensure that all those who are voting hold “Labour values” and are not trying to weaken the party from the inside. As one staffer noted: “we sell Labour membership as being about values and let people forget that they have to sign up to the aims too.” These concerns are especially prevalent as fears grow that, if Corbyn wins, the losers will mount a...
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Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time
Science, Maths & Technology

Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time

...project after another, the designer could be involved in an upgrading process that would see each model evolve through re-manufacturing in a more direct interaction with consumers. [A woman sits in a small blue car with and orange and white decal on the side door is parked on tarmac. The sea is in the background above the car and a red van and green and white car drive on...
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Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws
History & The Arts

Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws

...projects of the Anti-Corn Law League, do request that all tenant farmers who agree with us will attend a meeting at the Swan Hotel, in Newport Pagnell, on Wednesday, the 10th day of January instant, at three o'clock in the afternoon, to adopt such measures as may be thought requsite to carry into effect the above objects. Thomas Smith, Lathbury Joseph Atterbury, Milton...
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Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...project at Tate Exchange. Agnes asked Nele what kinds of issues The Citizenshop was meant to highlight...[Can you buy what the Citizenshop sells?] What can you buy? For Nele, one of the key objectives was to highlight the little known practice of acquiring citizenship ‘by investment’. Many countries in the world – including the UK – ‘sell’ citizenship to those...
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Are selfies a terrible thing?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are selfies a terrible thing?

...project. They are continually under pressure to “improve” their appearance. It is against this backdrop that selfies have become an everyday, routine activity. Given these social pressures on women it’s easy to assume that filtered selfies or selfie editing is just about “fixing” what women don’t like about the way they look. #ad Hey Guys! LuMee cases are...
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Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...project of a revival of the Olympic Games." In 1880 Brookes took his boldest step towards his Olympic pursuit by conceiving the idea of a recurring international event, and by the end of the decade he found someone with similar views of Olympic values, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The Frenchman was invited to attend an autumn edition of the Wenlock Games in 1890. Brookes...
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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...project the aim is to use data from a questionnaire survey with police officers and senior officers, as well as data from the ASD community exploring their perceptions of interacting with the police, so I can identify areas of police practice where improvement might be needed and develop and test operational procedures to improve police practice during the identification...
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Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...project aims to do about it. Transcript What is certain is that gender matters in the IT sector, albeit less, or at least differently, in India. Moreover, overarching trends which are captured by terms such as Rising Powers are ultimately based on gender differentiated labour. If you work in the IT sector, or you know someone who does, and you’ve got some insight into...
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