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A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk
Society, Politics & Law

A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk

...become an "unsustainable" burden for the welfare state. Cameron’s wish list also voices concerns with regards to sovereignty. The goal to create an “ever-closer union” in Europe is seen as a threat to the UK’s sovereignty, although it has never been clearly established what this entails and whether the position of the Member States could differ from one another....
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Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?
Money & Business

Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?

...become progressively less important to consumers, and to the towns where it operates. The sites its stores occupy are often central and sometimes externally grand physical spaces, but commercially they are underperforming and internally many of the stores are dated. For many consumers BHS does not really stand out or have an offer that makes it a desired destination. The...
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...becoming isolated. In 1871, Professor Seeley concluded his talk about a United States of Europe by imagining ‘a European public opinion gradually educated to see before it a new Federation rising like a majestic temple over the tomb of war, emulating the transatlantic Federation in prosperity and unity but surpassing it by far in all the riches of culture, manners and...
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Why do American parties hold conventions?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do American parties hold conventions?

...become relatable, as well as to convey some of those qualities which Trump’s campaign will want to highlight. Besides his religious and social conservative credentials – things for which Trump is hardly noted – his strong suit will be competence and executive experience. While Trump has had trouble attracting party heavyweights to Cleveland, many of the other...
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‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why

...become irrelevant. Accordingly, many athletes lose focus, feel lost and lack direction. As London 2012 gold medallist Victoria Pendleton stated: You have all this build-up for one day, and when it’s over, it’s: ‘Oh, is that it?’ You’re relieved but kind of sad and numb. It’s over … people think it’s hard when you lose, but it’s almost easier to come...
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Trump and the triumph of hopeful nihilism
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and the triumph of hopeful nihilism

...become to fight an order that prioritises profit over people. The nihilists have won this election because being “pragmatic” does not address the large-scale systematic changes that are needed to fight rising inequality. Nevertheless, the impulse of joyful destruction as expressed through Trump – and indeed Brexit – threatens to make an already bad situation much...
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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

...become of the population engaged on the soil? In agriculture there were employed - of males, above twenty years of age, 2,470,411, whilst all the manufactures of the kingdom only employed 710,551. (Hear, hear.) Were then the great mass of the population to be destroyed for the aggrandisement of the smaller portion? Were the two millions and a half of male agriculturalists...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...become fully democratic until each one of its inhabitants has the possibility of knowing in an objective manner the elements of their history”. Indeed, access to the history (and sometimes even the deep history) of collective decision-making can often be more central to the sustaining of genuine accountability and democratic control of complex policy areas than access...
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