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Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?
Money & Business

Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?

...course, she would face a difficult electorate, fractious at the cost of a Brexit that may well have delivered on little of its promises. Calling an election now then, when the going still looks good, is May’s best chance of ever becoming an elected prime minister. In that circumstance she has succumbed to vanity, as all politicians do. Britons might all, quite...
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How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?

...course, in all sorts of ways extraordinary. In a little over a year, the 39-year-old former finance minister has gone from being a wannabe to the future tenant of the Elysée Palace. He struck out alone to form his own political movement and while much of the froth surrounding the election has focused on his opponent, the enormity of his achievement needs to be...
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Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?

...course there will be some processes that flow deeper than others, or with more stability, but ultimately all is in flux Social constructionism was as much a political as an epistemological intervention, and as such it can only be properly grasped in these hybrid terms. What on the epistemological plane was a challenge to any essentialism that claimed a fixed order became,...
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What’s the big deal about virginity?
History & The Arts

What’s the big deal about virginity?

...courses and qualifications [Vesta ] Vesta, goddess of hearth (palace garden of Sanssouci, Potsdam) by Francois Gaspard Adam, 1758 Virginity, women’s lack of sexual experience before marriage in particular, has been highly valued in many different cultures. Some feminist critics have argued that the high value placed on the virginity of unmarried women has been used to...
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Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...course and life events. However, when it comes to dying, wellbeing is usually not the first (or in top ten even) of words that people think about. People may be more familiar with thinking about ‘quality of life’, which if often linked to patient outcomes. In this article, we’ll outline what taking a wellbeing approach to dying matters and what it could look...
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Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?

...courses and qualifications. When Ofcom, the UK’s independent telephony regulator, released a wi-fi checker app for your smart phone, they also warned in its press release that your Christmas tree fairy lights could affect the quality of your wi-fi connection. Before the terrible jokes start and we all declare that this is a fit of “Bah Humbug!” from the telephone...
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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...courses Phone messaging apps are first and foremost a means of relating to, or connecting with, other people. This means that many anxieties about messaging are really concerns about relationships. Importantly, relationships always involve a balance between, on the one hand, expressing solidarity and connecting with others; and, on the other, maintaining independence, or...
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Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer
Society, Politics & Law

Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer

...course knowing her at all! It is these reactions of mine, which made me, reflect on how important embodied ways of knowing about ‘risk’ ‘fear’ and also caring for an other, even an unknown other, are. Reflecting on my reaction to the film made me think more about the relationship of Alia Syed’s journey through the tunnel to Mr. Haroun’s journey through the...
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