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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...public policies and investment in infrastructure...‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?: 3 Senegal and land acquisition/land grab - Natural capital may be defined as those features of the natural environment that people rely on for food, livelihood and quality of life. Natural capital includes arable and grazing land, forests, water, fisheries and minerals. Natural...
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Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...public purposes. Few were completely finished: the sculptor was working at the statues that adorned their fronts; the painter was still touching the external frescoes; and the scaffold of the architect was not in every instance withdrawn. Everywhere was the hum of art and artists. The Byzantine style of many of these buildings was novel to me in its modern adaptation, yet...
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Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...public opinion, even in places untouched by immigration. [Graph illustrating point described in text] Now let’s look in figure 6 at Brexit, and how White British voters in wards with fast East European growth in the 2000s voted. With similar controls, it’s the same story: when we control for the level of minorities in a ward, local ethnic change is linked with a much...
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Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...public matters.” The idea that each vote is equal is the basis of a recognition that in democracies all citizens are, nominally, equal. Being an equal citizen in terms of rights (and responsibilities) reminds us that despite differences in wealth, income and life chances we each have a stake in society. As Rawls notes our self-respect is a recognition that “what we do...
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James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...public? I think I’m in too privileged a position to answer that question. I don’t think I can answer that question publicly. Planet Earth: optimist or pessimist? I will always be optimistic about the future of wildlife on this planet, you have to be, you have to be optimistic… I think humanity, yes, of course, we do terrible, dark and desperate deeds, but I also...
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The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...public for its support, said the ‘girls were fighting for every woman and girl in Dumfries’. Writing to the press he stated he had ‘never come across a more intelligent set of young women anywhere’. (as reported in the Dumfries Standard & Advertiser on 10th April 1912, page 6: ‘Ryedale Factory Strike: Concert in Aid of Strike Funds. The letter was in the same...
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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...public display only in 2000, when the remains were repatriated to Botswana. If you are interested in learning more about the man behind the body, you will find this BBC article about “the man stuffed and displayed like a wild animal” as informative as it is disturbing. Another way to turn foreign people into spectacles for the western gaze was to put actual people on...
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Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...public discourse whenever entitlement is challenged, however politely. Guilty conscience? One aspect of threatened entitlement in a non-vegan society is the presumed right to consume the bodies of other animals. In that context, research has suggested that vegans prompt defensiveness among non-vegans by implying a failure to act on a moral issue. Unresolved guilt plays...
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