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Cooperation, anarchy and interdependence
Society, Politics & Law

Cooperation, anarchy and interdependence

...World Trade Organisation (WTO) control international states without one central world government? Is the WTO just a club for the extremely rich and powerful? The Open University’s Dr William Brown leads discussions around the themes of co-operation, interaction and interdependencies. Dr. Jef Huysmans and Dr. Simon Bromley delve into the political differences between the...
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...heritage will be written into the constitution. Furthermore, the “national story”, an official version of French history, will be reintroduced into schools and the politics of historical apology will be abandoned. The state will promote French influence throughout the world, in military, cultural and diplomatic terms (which, of course, already happens anyway). A...
How inclusive is women’s football?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How inclusive is women’s football?

...World Cup starting in July. The popularity of the Lionesses might also be because, at least for some, they have come to symbolise “girl power”, promoting and inspiring gender equality and a broader message of inclusion across sport and across society. Women’s football has been one of the most recognised places to showcase women’s claims for recognition, rights and...
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...world, towards employment in manufactures and commerce? It was earlier than one might think. In a chapter by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley from 2014, they estimated that, as early as c. 1710, 37.7 per cent of working men and women were already part of the “secondary sector”, which is mostly manufactures, plus a few other areas such as building. Although some of...
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...world. Nowadays, the Theory of Moral Sentiments is generally only remembered by historians, but Smith’s contemporaries rightly hailed it as a revolutionary book. Other eighteenth-century philosophers were attempting to mould human behaviour according to external commands derived from religion or philosophical systems. Smith, though, argued that human morality was...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what cities do you think have got it right? Dr Lincoln Allison:...
Learning our way to a better environment
Nature & Environment

Learning our way to a better environment

...World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th June each year. Around the world, events and stories are used to highlight the environmental threats and challenges communities face and to celebrate the ways in which they are adapting successfully. But the environment celebrated last year is not the same as the environment of today. Due to a range of human activities such...
Harry Potter and death and bereavement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Harry Potter and death and bereavement

...world when it comes to death and bereavement? Dr Sam Murphy explores...Traditionally, death and dying has been a subject which children may well have been shielded and protected from. J.K. Rowling’s books do the very opposite. They are imbued with death, indeed, the very type of deaths which the reader would not expect to experience. The reader lives in a world where...