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Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans
Money & Business

Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans

...accounts and with poor, “sub-prime” credit histories. This is not the case in the UK. The IRN research also shows that 33% of payday loan customers have a household income exceeding the national average – 6% of users at more than £50,000 per annum. The truth is that payday loans are a money-saving mechanism for some young professionals. For example, a £100 payday...
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Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...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 can’t. References Allan, G. (2008) ‘Flexibility, friendship, and family.’ Personal Relationships 15, 1-16. Borg, M., and Davidson, L. (2008) ‘The nature of...
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The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918
History & The Arts

The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918

...accounts allude to this sombre undercurrent. Despite the jubilation, the Manchester Guardian noted ‘how frequently…one saw eyelids which were not without a suspicion of tears’.[8] Whilst pleased and relieved that the ordeal was over, many were also prompted to confront the war’s immense costs. And for the bitterest observers, the news offered scant consolation....
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...accountability and democratic control of complex policy areas than access to up-to-the-minute information and documentation. Moreover, countervailing interests to transparency, such as ensuring the confidentiality of decision-making are generally much less weighty as regards historic as opposed to contemporary records of matters of public concern. Access to “public...
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How do we solve the social care funding problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How do we solve the social care funding problem?

...account for £133 billion, whereas the total bill for social care for older people is just £7 billion. The savings which May was trying to make on social care were worth around £2 billion; she’s promised an additional £8 billion for the NHS. In the absence of affordable insurance products to cover potential care costs of hundreds of thousands of pounds – whether at...
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How good were the pollster's predictions?
Science, Maths & Technology

How good were the pollster's predictions?

...account for it, and that meant their predictions were wrong. [The Conversation]Polling is a moving target, and the spoils go to those who are most adept at taking and changing aim. So will the lesson be learned for next time? Possibly. But next time, under-25s might not turn out in anything like the same numbers – or a different demographic altogether might surprise...
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Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical
History & The Arts

Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical

...account of the science of mechanics in the investigation of natural things; and the moderns, laying aside substantial forms and occult qualities, have endeavored to subject the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics, I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational,...
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How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?
History & The Arts

How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?

...accounts. Part of the hospital’s plans to restore traumatised British officers to health was to put these men to work in the professions they knew. For Owen, this would include teaching English at Tynecastle High School, returning him to the reassuring rhythms of work routines. Capital interest This sparked my interest to find out more about Owen’s time in Edinburgh....
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