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How do you become US President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become US President?

...law, serve only two terms. In 2020, Joe Biden was elected as the 46th President with 51.4% of the popular vote and 306 Electoral votes (Trump received 46.9% of the popular vote and 232 Electoral votes). Four years before, in 2016, the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, beat the Democrat, Hillary Clinton, to become the 45th President. Clinton lost in spite of beating...
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The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management
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The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management

...Law at The Open University (OU). Previously he held positions at Northumbria University, as Professor of International Public Services Management, and SDA Bocconi School of Management and Bocconi University, where he still serves as Visiting Professor of Management of International and Supranational Organizations. He is President of the European Group for Public...
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Should the Tories be worried about their low membership numbers?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the Tories be worried about their low membership numbers?

...lawful business, ignoring opinion pollsters and merely pausing for a few seconds to cast a sensible vote every five years. The only political party they will consider joining is Labour, in order to saddle it with an unelectable leader. All this might be true, but even this hard-headed organisation must be slightly disconcerted by current trends. For example, in the recent...
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Embarking on a career in cyber security
Digital & Computing

Embarking on a career in cyber security

...to communicate their findings to a variety of audiences, whether this be a corporate boardroom or a court of law. The Open University module Digital Forensics covers how to conduct investigations to correctly gather, analyse and present digital evidence to both business and legal audiences. This module is part of the MSc in Computing - Information Security and Forensics....
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6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...laws that govern us. If they’re not members of the government, they’re there to ask tough questions of Ministers and make sure that public money is being spent appropriately. Members of the Senedd right across the country hold regular surgeries. These are opportunities for residents to come to them with any issue they need help with. It could be a problem getting help...
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Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...law", but, "as far as the gods were concerned, it seemed to make no difference whether one worshipped them or not". Another factor was the growing confidence, in some quarters, in the achievements of man, and a consequent feeling that there was little, if anything, that man could not achieve on his own, without help from the gods. What need, or even what grounds, were...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...Scots Gaelic ‘sheiling’ and the Irish words ‘sugaun’ and ‘bawn’. The dialogue suggests spoken idiom of English in Ireland: ‘Poor weeny Willie, sure mammie is dead’. As discussed above, the dead mother is an idealised version of the mother as angel, but also an uncanny, possibly formidable presence. Perhaps she evokes some aspects of the powerful female...
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Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148
History & The Arts

Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148

...laws, and make new ones; settle the succession to the Crown; impose taxes; establish forms of religion; naturalize foreigners; dissolve marriages; legitimate bastards; attaint a man of treason, etc. Lord Bolingbroke, indeed, is of a different opinion, and affirms there is something which a parliament cannot do: it cannot annul the constitution; and that if it should...
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