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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...economic concerns too: Belfast and the north-east of Ireland was an industrial powerhouse based on shipbuilding and linen industries whilst the rural economy of the rest of the island was poorer, with no real industrial or manufacturing base. So in addition to religious and cultural differences, protestant north east Ulster had economic reasons for wanting to divide...
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...economics with expertise as a journalist and communicator. Evan trained as an economist. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and took a Masters degree in Public Administration at Harvard. He worked for a number of years as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at the London Business School before joining the BBC in 1993 as an economics...
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...economic crossroads between East and West for thousands of years, it had Roman ruins, mosques in former Byzantine churches, and a vast portrait of Kemal Ataturk, the 20th-century founder of modern secular Turkey, marked out in light bulbs on the hillside above the city. Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised to see shops and advertising smothered with consumer brands...
Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Health, Sports & Psychology

Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza

...economic growth through consumerism and spectator sport. Boxing is a particular example, and Carl Frampton’s recent fight attracted 9,000 fans inside the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, with a crowd of over a hundred outside – a hugely popular sport and sports personality. The Belfast Giants ice hockey following is a similar phenomenon encouraging the cultivation of...
On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...economic organisations and economists warn that exiting the EU would have a negative impact on the UK economy, with some saying the impact could be severe. In this context debates about the UK’s net contribution to the EU could be irrelevant. As the Institute for Fiscal Studies says: These impacts [EU budget net contribution] of EU membership on the public finances are...
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...economic development is enshrined in international law (Humphreys, 2019, p. 279), and any action from the North preventing them exercising this right could be considered as neo-colonialism. These rooted disagreements are difficult to overcome. However, it can be argued there is a tendency for conferences like COP26, the media around them and therefore people’s...
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...economic arguments proved wrong, they opened a space for a moral critique of chattel slavery. Recognition that chattel slavery was a ‘social evil’ also gained moral and political significance following the defeat of the British in the American War of Independence in 1781.Recognition that chattel slavery was a ‘social evil’ also gained moral and political...
Understanding Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Milton Keynes

...else The grid system of roads Where are all the people? A city in a forest Culture in Milton Keynes Arts in Milton Keynes Economics of Milton Keynes Milton Keynes and The Open University The failure of public transport—and how it could change Ethnic diversity in Milton Keynes How Milton Keynes is portrayed in the media Final thoughts More about Milton Keynes and cities...