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Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...opening up difficult emotional issues, identifying new ways of thinking about problems and challenging self-defeating beliefs and behaviours. Taking everything into account it would seem that you don’t have to be your friend’s ‘therapist’ in order to help them and, in fact, you can be more helpful by being a good friend to them in a number of ways that a therapist...
What are the secrets of enduring love?
Society, Politics & Law

What are the secrets of enduring love?

...Open University, Dr Meg John Barker and Dr Jacqui Gabb, have recently released a book titled ‘The Secrets of Enduring Love’ focusing on what couples actually do to maintain their relationships. Below is an extract from the book. After this you may like to view a video on whether we should make grand romantic gestures and whether this is important in our relationship....
European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?
Health, Sports & Psychology

European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?

...Opening Ceremony] On Friday 10th June the 15th UEFA European Championship will commence when the host nation, France, play against Romania in Saint Denis. This will be the first time the tournament has comprised of 24 teams and shows a huge expansion from the 4 teams who competed in the first tournament. The French are the bookmakers’ favourites to win the tournament...
‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why

...open water swim at the Beijing 2008 games said: In the year after the games, I felt lost. I got really depressed … I would come swimming and just sit on poolside and just cry. It was horrible, because I loved swimming. The curse of celebrity Previously known only to the staunchest of swimming fans, Adam Peaty is now a household name after 57.13 seconds of
Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws
History & The Arts

Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws

...opened the business of the day reading the requisition we have already given. For his own part (he said) he was no orator. He would, therefore, at once, come to the point. (Hear, hear) He thought it was high time that something was done by the farmers in opposition to the League. They had stool still quite long enough - (hear, hear) - and consequently had allowed the...
Why were Gibraltarians alarmed by Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Why were Gibraltarians alarmed by Brexit?

...opened in 1982 as part of the negotiations of Spain’s accession to the EEC but has remained a matter of contention between the UK and Spain. In 2014, Spain imposed lengthy border queues in protest at an artificial reef created in what Gibraltar sees as its waters. It is widely understood that it was membership of the EU that prevented Spain from closing the border...
What does Jacob Zuma's survival of a no-confidence vote mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Jacob Zuma's survival of a no-confidence vote mean?

...open voting. Accordingly, speaker Baleka Mbete had little legal choice but to opt for a secret ballot, even though it would encourage dissenting voices among the ranks of the ANC caucus. Politically, she had probably done the political mathematics and, as the national chairperson of the ANC, was confident that regardless of the shield that she said was necessary to...
Should Economics and the Environment work together?
Society, Politics & Law

Should Economics and the Environment work together?

...openness. How I personally value it hasn’t changed due to the UK National Ecosystem Assessment allowing its worth to be seen as an economically-valuable carbon sink, or a habitat to support insects that pollenate adjacent crops. But the fact it can now be recognized in this way will help it to be taken in to account even without a market. So whilst my personal opinion,...