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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...changes they don within the ever-so illusory world of the stage. You can see, therefore, why an artist such as Bowie so appeals. However, the most powerful image of him for me will always be the one I encountered first, namely the fantastical goblin king in Jim Henson’s film Labyrinth. I was only five years old at the time but was mesmerised by Bowie’s electrifying...
Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Society, Politics & Law

Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences

...change at all. So is a Hard Brexit ruled out? Such insidious cyclicity among Leave voters won’t trouble their political leaders provided a sufficiently Hard Brexit option remains on the table. But that’s been rendered highly uncertain by the Withdrawal Agreement struck with the EU on 8 December, to ensure ‘sufficient progress’ and enable talks to start on...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...changes experienced by a young man who after leaving his hometown community for London, returned to find it still recovering from the General Strike and the Depression. Williams and Sciascia belonged to the left-wing anti-fascist generation of the 1930s and were members of their respective communist parties.In the same period, Sciascia followed Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra...
Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...changed the way not only psychologists but our culture in general think about what it is to be a person. But whether Freud’s ideas are right or not is an arguable point. There are many psychoanalysts who swear by them (although a lot of them such as the followers of Jung, Adler and Klein give the core psychoanalytic notions their own particular spin). At the same time,...
International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...changes were made to attract migrant doctors, who would come to populate the lower and middle parts of the pyramidal medical hierarchy. They did not contribute to a pre-existing NHS; rather they made the health service what it is today. Immigration rules affecting Commonwealth migrant doctors Year Regulation 1962 Voucher system introduced 1971 Vouchers abolished; work...
The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...changes. Once a manager has made an initial decision or judgement then this provides a mental anchor which acts as a source of resistance to reaching a significantly different conclusion as new information becomes available. It is what happens when one has made a snap judgement and then disregards feedback that is inconsistent with this position. This bias can affect...
The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?
Money & Business

The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?

...changes in another country’s costs and prices, caused by exchange-rate movements (‘currency risk’). Keeping inflation rates low, by ending the tendency of some EU countries to allow higher inflation offset by periodic weakening (devaluation or depreciation) of their exchange rates Ending a previous pattern of ‘competitive devaluation’, in which several EU...
The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...changed their tactics. Learning the lessons of 1 July, they would generally employ more methodical methods in an effort to achieve more limited results for the remainder of the battle. Rather than attempting to achieve a decisive breakthrough of the German lines, the British army instead aimed at capturing pieces of terrain – woods, hills, villages, etc. – that were...