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The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...course, no statistical problem with a biased poll so long as it is consistently biased – that is, in the same direction and by about the same amount. This makes it easy to de-bias. And yet, the RealClearPolitics poll average takes this one at face value, simply adding it to the pool to produce an overall average. Because of the peculiarity of the American election...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...course, no theorist of social networks could investigate the specificities of Facebook until it came into existence! Fourthly, the proliferation of new methods does not imply that more longstanding methods are natural or unchanging. We still need to critically evaluate the implications of more established methods and the transformations that take place when they are...
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Why has Theresa May called for a snap election?
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Why has Theresa May called for a snap election?

...course, isn’t the main reason she’s doing this. What this victory will give May (as well as the chance to crush Labour before it comes to its senses and gets itself a new leader) is a whole bunch of new Tory backbenchers who, whatever their views on Europe and other issues, will know full well that they owe their place on the green benches mainly to her. That almost...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...course the CNPA are well aware of the challenges of successfully achieving this balance and the toolkit shows how they aim to capture some of these elusive meanings in the things they seek to measure. The toolkit is subdivided into three related sections: ‘landscape areas’ which seeks to highlight the topographic ‘character’ within separate subdivided areas of the...
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To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...course) but they are fakes nonetheless. [Carcassonne Castle, France ] Carcassonne Castle, France The third reason is also to do with faking, but in a slightly different sense. Artefacts show the signs of their wear; the marks upon them manifest their story. Consider a case of a building that is damaged in war and a decision is taken to restore it to exactly how it was...
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Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
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Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...course also the people who commissioned and made television in the 1950s and 1960s. They had lived through both the Second World War and Britain’s last days as a colonial empire. Struggles for independence from British rule had been tense and in many cases bloody and that is the background that may go some way to explaining the editorial tone of ‘The Challenge of the...
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The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja
Society, Politics & Law

The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja

...course. But, for a football researcher like me, such mission statements are useful as they can then be subject to scholarly scrutiny, particularly in the case of larger confederations such as FIFA. Academics can also look at the tournaments themselves. Recent research on sporting “mega events” has looked at whether hosting a tournament does actually promote physical...
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...courses aimed at making a difference. Make Change Happen was developed with Oxfam, and we also partnered with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy to help organisations become more aware of their safeguarding responsibilities. We’re doing lots more in this area and seek to use both our distance learning expertise and ability to work at scale to help people and...
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