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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...course. He can make the downturn itself his priority and cut taxes, or increase spending to get the economy moving again. Or he can shrug and do nothing. Roughly speaking Osborne cut at the beginning of the last parliament and shrugged at the end. This time it looks as if it will be the other way round: 2019-20 is the year when a £20 billion deficit is now forecast to...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...course, is a gross over-simplification of an outcome which resulted from a complex set of inter-related factors. Various suggestions have been put forward to explain the Leave vote as a whole, including wealth inequality, an educational divide, young vs old, the influence of the right-wing print media, and a trans-national revolt against established elites. These would...
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No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...free debates are necessary features of a democratic society, and we should not lightly accept these limitations. Worryingly, the presence of intense ingroup processes and groupthink at the heart of government would imply a group no longer able to operate effectively outside of its own inner social and ideological bubble. If this occurred, it would have alarming effects...
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The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup
Science, Maths & Technology

The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup

...free of rodents. A vet who oversees Achilles explained why he was picked for the new soothsayer job: We went for Achilles because he is beautiful, first of all, but also because — like all white cats with blue eyes — he is deaf, so he has a great deal of intuition, he sees with his heart. Stable relationships But it won’t only be Achilles who’ll be using...
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Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...free trapped pollutants such as water vapour, and deposit this water on cool parts of the spacecraft where it can cause problems such as shorting electronics. But both sensitivity to vacuum and temperature change are relatively easy to deal with, and can also be monitored with simple sensors on board the device. Small meteorite impacts are hard to predict but remain rare....
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Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...free over time. Transforming care cannot be done on the cheap. Neither can we take for granted that the NHS will be able to find the £22bn savings that Simon Stevens has committed to. Three quarters of savings made under the ‘Nicholson Challenge’ of the last five years came on the back of tariff cuts and pay restraint, neither of which are sustainable going forward....
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...Free your people What also emerged from the research was the damaging effect of operating in a constrained environment. Where people lacked either the time or the resources, then generally the first thing to be sacrificed was a focus on purpose and ethics. As one leader in a central government department said: “When you work really, really hard and things get stressed,...
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This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...free from the back-breaking labour that defined rural life. According to geographer Yi Fu Tuan, the stability and relative comfort of urban life enabled citizens to turn their attentions to the big questions of philosophy, ethics and politics, or to develop and exchange scientific knowledge. Cities have been at the heart of nations and empires, where political power is...
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