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Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...Institute of Economic Affairs, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Adam Smith Institute, was able to claim that Labour’s welfare and social agenda was denying freedom to individuals, encouraging ‘dependency’ and, combined with trade union power, was responsible for Britain’s economic ruin. They argued that Keynesianism, which had partly informed Conservative as...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...institution of marriage as a fraud perpetrated by society to subjugate men and especially women: in Queen Mab, he had written of ‘Woman and man, in confidence and love, / Equal and free’. The screenwriter Stephen Volk talks about the making of Gothic, and its mixture of Freudian and Marxist influences: Transcript Neil McArthur dates the invention of ‘free love’ as...
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How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...Institute of Technology Kharagpur, a Masters from Stanford University and a MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Pichai, who was relatively unknown in most of India saw much love from his home country and state after the promotion. His Wikipedia article saw a massive edit war — between two groups of two different schools — claiming from he...
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Welcome to nowhere special
Languages

Welcome to nowhere special

...institution today says “welcome” multilingually in a show of banal cosmopolitanism. “Banal cosmopolitanism” is based off the much better-known concept of “banal nationalism”. Banal nationalism refers to the mundane discourses – flags, maps, national references, etc. – that enact national belonging in everyday life. Similarly, banal cosmopolitanism refers...
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Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...institutions were suppressed and Catalan was banned in the school system. Indicative of the new political order were statements from the authorities, the police in particular, such as “Hable el idioma del imperio”: use the language of the empire. The immediate consequence was that Catalonia lost many of the material resources for the production and reproduction of its...
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Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...Institute in Paris developed the technique of implanting a small radioactive material into a tumour which is known as brachytherapy and is used to treat certain cancers. It is noteworthy that in 1935 their daughter Irène along with her husband Frédéric Joliot were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their synthesis of new radioactive elements. 2: Rosalind...
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...institutional racism is our culture, our culture within the police service. Much has been said about our culture, the canteen culture, the occupational culture. How and why does that impact on individuals, black individuals on the street? Well, we would say the occupational culture within the police service, given the fact that the majority of police officers are white,...
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Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...institutions of the state, such as the police, have been regarded as institutionally racist means that certain groups are even more at risk. It was a catalogue of errors that meant a mentally unstable woman was imprisoned for defending herself. In 2016, Sarah’s mother, Marylin Reed, stated that ‘my daughter was failed by many and I was ignored’ (quoted in Gentleman...
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