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First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?
Money & Business

First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?

...sustained by continued performance of the contact is too severe, one could even choose to breach the contract. Compensation for the victim of the breach is assessed on the basis of the loss they are actually suffering, not on how much money the perpetrator is saving. There may be some relief to those expecting payments of compensation for legal disputes already resolved....
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...sustained in his youth, and for many commentators, the way this incident was promoted by The Sun newspaper was a personal attack, manipulating the sentiments around the tragic death of a member of the armed forces for political ends. Far from unpresidented [sic] One reason these issues provoke such controversy, and why spelling is so venerated in society generally, is...
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Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...sustained and productive dialogue with key players, something which successive UK governments have failed to do. The question still resonating is: have governments failed solely for lack of good evidence from academic research? Most likely not. Yet from where I sit ­– the pursuit of ‘how do we know’ about Iran and the Middle East – there is a crying need for...
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...Sustainable Development Goals recently spoke of e-learning as a powerful tool for widening access to education of all sorts, in terms of both cost and availability. One important way is through open and distance learning. Recently, the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation was set up to share the best of the world’s digital ‘public goods’...
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What was The Schlieffen Plan?
History & The Arts

What was The Schlieffen Plan?

...war effort and sustained the will to fight for four long years of war. And it provided ample proof, if proof were needed, for the victors to allocate responsibility for the outbreak of the war to Germany and its allies. Next: The August experience allegedly united people behind the 1914 war effort. But this shared enthusiasm is a myth. Read more in War enthusiasm...
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How to build a real lightsaber
Science, Maths & Technology

How to build a real lightsaber

...sustain searing hot temperatures as high as millions of degrees Celsius. Most interestingly, hot plasmas tend to emit different colours depending on the gas they are made of. For example, a neon light is nothing but a tube filled with neon gas in a plasma state. The green lightsabers of Jedi knights could be made of chlorine plasma, which emits predominantly green light,...
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‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis

...sustained me since. ‘Get as much physical and psychological help as you can’ would be another piece of advice. We did. I gathered up friends and family to support me with caring duties. Many found it a privilege to be asked and Alan enjoyed having the company of those he loved. Both of us had counselling because we went into anticipatory grief. I had never heard of...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...sustained and personalised nature of their engagement (Kucirkova, Littleton and Cremin, 2016). These synergies which have the potential to help shape teachers’ (and parents’ and publishers’) choices of reading resources will be examined in more detail at a forthcoming UKLA Research Symposium Reading for Pleasure-What Next? at the Open University in London, March...
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