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...Out of balance There’s a second major reason why the fiscal deficit has been hard to reduce. The public sector will inevitably be in deficit at times when the country is importing more than it can export (running a current account deficit) and when the private sector is investing less than it saves. Over the past five years the UK has continued to run its traditional...

...out of place’ – to be estranged and Othered. Estrangement entails removing someone from their previous life. It is to be shifted from familiarity to strangeness and to be re-assigned to a new devalued status. Estrangement is premised on the process of being forcefully made stranger from that which was previously inhabited as home. Prisons are institutions of...

...out of 22 regional assemblies off the back of a tide of anti-Sarkozy feeling. François Hollande then went on to take the national presidency in 2012. Since then, though, the left has been routed at every turn. The Republicans (formerly known as the UMP) and their centrist allies in the Union des Démocrates et Indépendants have staged a recovery but, most spectacularly,...