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Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...economic and health losses that climate change is already causing across the world are detailed in six scientific papers published on the 19th July. Perhaps most striking is the warning about large productivity losses already being experienced due to heat stress, which can already be calculated for 43 countries. The paper estimates that in South-East Asia alone “as much...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...economic activity suspended, the country had to finance much of its military spending by issuing long-term debt. While “Your Country Needs You” might not have been the slogan that mobilised a million troops, the Treasury struck gold with its own marketing campaign - inducing people to buy its bonds more as a patriotic duty than a profitmaking investment. Much of the...
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Change in the West of Ireland
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Change in the West of Ireland

...economic potential of this unique landscape. But the attractive landscape of the West coast of Ireland and its cultural wealth - particularly as home to one of the last locations where Irish (Gaeilge) struggles to survive as the main daily language - have however often co-existed with and been counterbalanced by a history of rural poverty and social decline. So, while...
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‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...economic equal? There is no denying that the fishing industry has emotive power. But it is time to start asking the serious questions about whether Brexit could deliver real control for UK fishermen. Let’s start with some context. According to the most recent EU level fisheries publication there are 6,552 fishing vessels in the UK (90% of fishing businesses only have...
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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...economics supported by a selective and obfuscating ragbag of numbers. George Osborne preaches about “economic security” and the need for a “strong economy.“ But the economy is weaker and less secure because of his policies. As the IMF has shown, cuts in government spending weakens economies. The lesson from all competitive modern countries is that a strong economy...
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Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...economic instability caused by globalization and deep-seated conservative hostility to America’s changing demographics. The result is a toxic brew of fear and paranoia. A January 2016 CNN poll found that 88 percent of Republicans believe that America is headed in the wrong direction. With a crisis-like atmosphere prevailing within the GOP, conservative and evangelical...
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EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...economic efficiency, with no wider agenda for political integration. Promoted by the UK, with the symbolic start-date of 1992, the Single Market programme eliminates national differences in technical regulations for goods and services, so the same can be sold in all member states. “Leave” campaigners say that the EU took too many wrong turns after ‘1992’ –...
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Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...economic and geographic arguments were also advanced , but in the end the boundary commission decided to maintain the status quo. Across Northern Ireland the period of ‘The Troubles’ brought power struggles to almost every town, however, Newry’s involvement started earlier than most. An IRA campaign began in the area in December 1956 and such was the scale of the...
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