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New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?
Society, Politics & Law

New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?

...central theme of his campaign, he displayed a remarkably poor grasp of basic financial and economic issues. Then he compounded his error by challenging Clinton’s qualifications to serve as president. Whatever one might think of Hillary Clinton, her service as Secretary of State and as a two-term U.S. Senator makes her as well qualified for the presidency as anyone in...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...central, and providing learners with opportunities to construct their own understandings, to be producers of knowledge as well as consumers of education. There was also a personal touch. When he introduced footage of a flax spinning mill he noted that the wealthy owner provided baths of his workforce. By contrast, Briggs tells viewers that his Leeds-based grandfather used...
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The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...central to Smith’s purpose: in fact, the expression is only found once in the text, in passing. While Wealth of Nations was a highly innovative account of market economics, it was not a work of pure economic theory. What Smith offered, instead, was a detailed account of Europe’s 18th-century economy. He did not consider economic mechanisms in isolation but rather as...
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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...central to holding a sense of self, as we realise that many ‘parts’ of us can change, such as our body, our job, our home, and yet there is something permanent that remains, that transcends the changes that occur. Watching a tree go thorough cycles of bud, leaves, flowers or fruit, then losing leaves again can be a metaphor for the part of us that remains while things...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...central garden, with shops, schools and laundry for residents. The launderette and school remain today, serving the lively local community. The distinctive design of Arnold Circus and its close proximity to the City of London means that its apartments remain in demand. They are both privately owned and rented from Tower Hamlets council. [Arnold Circus: Hurley...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...centrally as part of the imagining and decision making process. Now this really feeds into what we are trying to do in block five of the module. One of the starting points for this module is a well-known theorist named Bruno Latour. And one of his main ideas that kind of informs what we are doing here is that nature and culture - nature and culture, environment and...
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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...central concern of abolitionists, but they focus on the broader concept of ‘social justice’. They argue that there is an obligation to build a social structure that can meet the needs of all social members. Abolitionism calls for redress not just for individual and interpersonal harms but the harms generated by social injustice. Abolitionists promote interventions...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...central part in addressing this is the question whether the choice of parliamentary candidates and MPs is fit for purpose. Considering a trust perspective we can distinguish between competence based and goodwill trust, the latter being a function of integrity and benevolence. In this article, and what this tells us about the system of recruitment and selection of MPs and...
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