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Even Brexit backers can’t make the sums work for UK to quit EU
Society, Politics & Law

Even Brexit backers can’t make the sums work for UK to quit EU

...business investment in the case of an EU exit… It is therefore assumed that… (foreign direct investment) decreases by 35%. So, the maximum percentage of such investment the UK is expected to lose if it leaves the EU is arbitrarily assumed to equal the share of British firms in a CBI survey that said they would decrease their own investment if the UK leaves the EU....
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How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...average score of the polls would have been Remain 50%, Leave 50%. In short, at least half of the error in the polls may be a consequence of the decisions that the pollsters made about to how to adjust their final figures. Polling a referendum truly is a tough business.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...business and diplomacy have spread English everywhere. The initial vehicle for this was the Empire. What we see now has its roots in a time long past. Over the past thirty to forty years, many in Europe have started learning English from the first year of primary school. It’s everyone’s second languagenow. Levels of fluency may vary, yet overall language competence...
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What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?
Money & Business

What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?

...business. Similarly, if people do not spend money on drink, they will buy other products, and support other industries. We do not need to wreck windows or drinkers’ lives for the good of the economy. The Institute of Alcohol Studies’ new report, Splitting the Bill: Alcohol’s Impact on the Economy lays out this argument in more detail. It walks through the economic...
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What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...busy instead making hay with their preferred EU bogey-figures, namely Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, who are both portrayed as bullies embittered by the very notion that a member state wants to leave the club. The victory of Emmanuel Macron – the insider’s outsider –suddenly means there could be another leader that comes to embody EU hostility to the UK...
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Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...business. Despite this, the offshore wind industry insists it has a bright future: costs are coming down, and supporters say the sector is becoming ever more competitive. Ironically, the slump in the price of oil has been one factor driving down the price of offshore power. Inactivity in the oil industry and the closure of many drilling projects in the North Sea and...
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There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Society, Politics & Law

There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters

...business – reporting that companies with more women on their boards had a 53% higher return on equity. On the specific issue of negotiation skills, evidence suggests that women are just as successful as men. Too often, the myth of meritocracy is trotted out when people are asked to justify the gender imbalance on their teams. They point to experience, knowledge or...
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...business of politics and can take many different forms. Along with its close cousin ‘narrative’, it’s also something of a buzzword for political communications these days. As the authors of the updated version of Raymond Williams’s Keywords project wrote a few years ago, in the twenty-first century the concept of ‘narrative… has seen a sharp rise in...
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