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US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...University Press: The essence of presidential leadership Meet some unlikely leaders The impact of next Tuesday has implications beyond the two shining seas that bookend America. What, for example, are Germans hoping for as America chooses its next leader? Expectations are not high: Helmut Kopp, 46, is a senior partner in a business consultancy near Frankfurt and is...
Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...University of Florida, there’s an annual arts festival in full swing right now, but it’s also home to the Gatornationals, one of the nation’s premier drag-racing meets. Driving between the two along Interstate 75, you can see down-at-heel trailer parks and upscale horse-breeding estates. It’s a land of contrasts. This diversity explains why Florida has been beset...
Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?

...universal that states have begun to improvise enforcement rules beyond those included in the Chemical Weapons Convention, which has been signed by every country in the world except Egypt, South Sudan and North Korea. The development of this new norm means that justification is now available to any country that wishes to unilaterally punish another country for its use of...
Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
History & The Arts

Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing

...universality of the film in its evocation of family holidays and the awkwardness of approaching a potential love interest, both of which he compares to episodes from his own life growing up in Britain. The essay is an absorbing account of his uneven relationship with the film, which will resonate with a wide range of readers, whether fans of the film or otherwise. In...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...University informed his ground-breaking work on culture. Leonardo Sciascia was from Racalmuto, a small working-class town located deep in the hills of the Sicilian province of Agrigento, where his father worked in the sulphur mines. That environment, its people, land and territory, remained an enduring preoccupation in his work. It was a place he never really left, apart...
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...University. Before becoming an MP she worked for JP Morgan. Whilst her successor Sajid Javid came from a working class background, his early working life was with Deutsche Bank. Whilst these policies which are inherently hostile to sections of the working class are presented in terms of unavoidable decisions to balance the books, they are in fact borne from a well of...
Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...Universal Credit uplift. An international problem? The UK isn’t suffering alone. US inflation reached 7% in December, the highest since 1982. The Eurozone’s was 5%, with Germany’s at 5.7%. All economies have been hit by a global surge in energy costs. The average oil price rose 69% across 2021, climbing to its highest for seven years in January 2022 from historic...
The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...University's Science courses and qualifications Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects...