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Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?

...management and council leaders for equal pay. Councillor David McDonald, Deputy Leader, Glasgow City Council Mags McCarthy, Open University Tutor, UNISON Divisional Convenor and former Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate Jennifer McCarey, Chair of Glasgow Trades Council Lyn-Marie O’Hara, Glasgow City Council UNISON Shop Steward Not surprisingly Red Clydeside remains an...
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History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...manage it properly and then tried to deconstruct free movement arrangements. The question now has to be, where does the UK go from here? And there are some important clues in history. The Commonwealth Immigrants Act In the 1940s and 1950s, migration from Commonwealth countries helped efforts to rebuild the UK after World War II and to bolster Britain’s depleted...
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War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...manage popular discontent. Strikes on the home-front, and desertion and even mutinies on the front threatened the governments’ war efforts as populations tired of warfare. An example is the French mutinies of April-July 1917 (kept secret at the time), when large numbers of infantry soldiers refused to fight. Some twenty-thousand soldiers were court-martialled as a...
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Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...manage and improve air quality control is largely driven by European Union legislation. The 2008 ambient air quality directive (2008/50/EC) sets legally binding limits...and was made law in England through the Air Quality Standards Regulations…” Britain is already acting as the tailpipe of Europe. It broke its air pollution limits for 2017 just a few days into the...
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
History & The Arts

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand

...managed to shoot the Archduke in the neck and his wife in the abdomen. Sophie died in the car, and Franz Ferdinand shortly after reaching the residence of the Governor. The conspirators could not know, and certainly had not planned, that a world war would result from this act of violence, but in the weeks that followed, decisions were made in Europe’s capitals that...
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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...manages to be simultaneously sensational, supernatural, romantic and realist. Milly Williamson, in her book The Lure of the Vampire, nails some of the reasons for Dracula’s impact – now and then – and why we are so fascinated by the dishy undead. And over recent years – who would have thought it! – the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer has found its way...
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Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...managed by many different teams with unclear responsibilities. Like other organisations, Atlanta has not made adequate investment in computer security training and preventative measures to protect against security threats; (the same problems were found in the NHS after the WannaCry attack). Indeed, an earlier audit had warned that the city was at risk from cyber attack,...
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The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...managers and clinicians not to pay attention to awkward realities that patients or their carers try to bring to their attention. Precisely this kind of thing has been documented in detail by Robert Francis QC in his inquiry into how very poor care was some years ago allowed to persist at Stafford General Hospital. The approach set out by the ‘Berwick Report’ is...
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