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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...accounts from small business specialists who were directly involved in establishing the Quarterly Survey, a review of key trends affecting smaller firms, and ten short cases that share the experiences of small business owners who have been taking part in the Quarterly Survey for two decades. Mike Holland, 59 has been participating in the Quarterly Survey since the 1990s....
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Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...account (such as a bank, online shop, iTunes, Facebook or the like). These phishing messages are likely to be fakes sent by criminals, and whilst they might not carry malware, they might form part of a much larger campaign. Providing the sender of the email with some personal information – such as name, address, password and the like – allows them to target you, or...
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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...accounts of the murder”. But reenactments of topical murders formed only one type of violent drama found on the contemporary stage. Much more prominent was the murder melodrama. Theatre playbills, which were highly informative productions at this time, not only provided a textual description of the violent scenes in advertised plays, but from the 1840s, graphic...
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Is public spending a drain on the economy or the mark of a civilised society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is public spending a drain on the economy or the mark of a civilised society?

...account for the growth of public spending in many Western European countries to around 40 to 45 per cent of GDP. Neoliberals would claim that the role of the State is to protect property in its narrowest sense and to ensure the functioning of free and efficient markets. However, the claims made for market efficiency are contestable. For example, markets often depend on...
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Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...accountability and support the notion that traffic collisions are inevitable. Likewise, using the word ‘accident’ to describe crashes, suggests they are unavoidable. In reality, speeding, drink or drug driving, phone use and not wearing a seatbelt – all of which are avoidable – are the leading causes of road deaths. We need a balance of education, policy and...
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...account for many of the feelings that fall within the ambit of love. Untranslatable words I decided to expand on this work as part of a broader lexicographic project to collect so-called “untranslatable” words that pertain to well-being, a work-in-progress which currently features nearly 1,000 words. Such words can reveal phenomena which have been overlooked or...
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Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...are again raised around performance, financial sustainability and superiority of service. The state might not offer preferable alternatives to their business counterparts, but there is one key difference with state run facilities: public accountability for the individual or institutional infliction of harm or systematic violence, at least in theory if not practice....
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What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?
History & The Arts

What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?

...account falling into enemy hands.” This was one of Hitler’s famous “Nero orders”, an indirect sentence of death. The secrets Hitler and Coburg shared seemed to be so important that they needed to be hidden from public view. More transparency at the Royal Archives is needed so that historical investigations such as this can be conducted fully, not shrouded in...
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