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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...in fact borne from a well of shared assumptions within the Conservative Party about the dangers of immigration, about the indolence of sections of the working class and about the inadequacy of public services. The hostile environment is not just for immigrants it is for anybody who does not share the experiences of privately educated privilege and the financial sectors....
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...public. Freud also tried using hypnosis at first. But he later discarded it in favour of techniques like free association (the patient saying whatever comes into the mind), dream interpretation and closely analysing the relationship between patient and the therapist himself. Freud’s original aim was to release blocked feelings (catharsis), but later it became to help...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...of the Working Class, by Owen Jones, is published by Verso. This article was originally published by John Booth, and openDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC). To respond and share your views, join the debate at OpenDemocracy.net. First publication on OpenLearn was in June 2011. Find out more Study the social sciences with The Open University...
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Studying natural sciences bilingually
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying natural sciences bilingually

...public, land managers and politicians. Studying the natural sciences in Welsh means that you have better opportunities of employment because if you can demonstrate that you have experience and the ability to communicate science, which is often quite a technical and complicated subject, at a professional level, and that in two languages, then you’re potentially more...
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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...public. PET offer over 120 different distance learning courses, from business start-up to creative writing, GCSEs and A-levels, and Open University Access modules. I learnt about graffiti, poetry, and activism. I started to dream of a life where I could be free to do all those things. My life had been small, and the prison was smaller but in the folds of the textbooks I...
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...public figures, whom his readers might well have known. It is as if a modern-day philosopher gave up writing books and articles and began to write philosophical dramas, set in the 1980s perhaps, and featuring Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Hawking or David Bowie. [Plato statue at the Academy of Athens building in Athens, Greece] Marble statue of the ancient Greek Philosopher...
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The Valentine's rose trade story in a dozen roses
Nature & Environment

The Valentine's rose trade story in a dozen roses

...public and often grown in gardens and up walls. “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:” The ‘musk-roses’ refer to the field rose, whilst eglantine refers to a fourth British species, Rosa rubiginosa (‘the rusty rose’) now more...
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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...public statement standing down the IRA army council. This was the next impossible demand; a stalling tactic - deliberately designed as such, something that took us into 2010. Chief Constables Sir Ronnie Flanagan and Sir Hugh Orde were important leaders in the long period of change. Flanagan delivered the RUC into the new beginning, and Orde’s task was implementing the...
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