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...work Mars as the Abode of Life, Lowell states: “We have carefully considered the circumstantial evidence in the case, and we have found that it points to intelligence acting on that other globe, and is incompatible with anything else.” Unfortunately for Lowell, subsequent observations with more powerful telescopes revealed that the channels were not real features, but...

...worked for Donald Trump because there was so little trust in the political establishment to begin with. It may also be what unravels him in the end – a lack of trust by those in his administration. The public may come to trust that his rhetoric is not mere positioning but declarations of intention. This may lead to greater resistance to his plans and a wider recognition...

...working- and lower middle-class Victorians. Given the limited time available for leisure, the importance of the Sunday newspaper as a form of entertainment becomes clear. Violent Victorians today Some of this may be familiar to you. Discrete pieces – such as execution broadsides, or penny bloods – are occasionally brought out to titillate 21st century audiences, to...

...working extra hard to create meaningful access to education for those the report calls “disadvantaged subpopulations”, distinguished typically by income, gender, disability, ethnicity and location or migration status. Among the world’s three to four-year-olds, the richest children are almost six times more likely to attend an early childhood education programme than...

...work to say a wee prayer’. I was bereft of words but – a Protestant and not my thing really – gladly agreed to ‘say a wee prayer’ in return – a revolution of feeling as much as of hard ‘reality’ (though maybe those are not so different). That is now Derry. The images too have a tale to tell: the community-created murals that now replace the old pictorial...

...workings of the system, and called for a new system to put the structural defects of the present one to rights. A flawed democracy The “strong democratic mandate” promised by the new system has simply not happened, and not just because of low voter turnout. The problems since then have been many and varied. One of the most troubling issues is the inability of the...