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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...account, the figure is closer to £161 million a week. So the £350 million figure is an invention or just a lie. But the £161 million is still a significant amount the UK could use on healthcare if we leave the EU. Except it couldn’t. Non-member countries in Europe who want to trade with the EU’s single market, Like Switzerland and Norway, still have to make...
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...account when developing a treatment programme. Stress leads to injuries The biopsychosocial approach has led to a development in the understanding of important areas such as the psychological aspects of sport injury. This is a field of study that didn’t really exist fifty years ago and has only emerged as a distinct area in recent years. Thanks to the development of...
Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update

...account for two-thirds of all WSL revenue. Such a disparity does not so much raise questions about the financial sustainability of the WSL but the competitive balance of the league. Furthermore, the Deloitte review also noted the financial challenge of supporting the aspiration of two professional leagues as well as the difficulty of properly assessing the income and...
Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...accounts of British history, as discussed in a 2016 BBC series ‘Black and British: A Forgotten History’ currently being repeated on the iPlayer platform. Slowly, we are (re)discovering Black British sporting figures and their fascinating stories. Increasingly we see profiles emerge of these forgotten sporting icons in the media, often as content created to mark Black...
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...accounts of the Jewish Holocaust. These are dark-skinned people, not Europeans like you and me their contemporary existence is absolutely dysfunctional These statements aren’t from the historical archives. They were made by Italian and Hungarian politicians, respectively, in 2010. A European Union survey, in 2019, found the Roma are increasingly threatened by the far...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...account of Southampton, docks have a fancy of taking themselves in, and eluding the tourist eye, and even when they "flank the Mersey for a distance of 6-7 M." they do not respond to American curiosity so frankly as could be wished. They are like other English things in that, however, and it must be said for them that when apparent they are sometimes unimpressive. From my...
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...account of St Patrick planting the yew tree which gave the city its name, as he travelled through the region in the fifth century. In the sixth century it was noted that Newry was included in every tour that over-kings made of their territory. However, it was in the Norman period that Newry took on its identity as ‘the frontier town’, an identity which would see it at...
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...accounted for 27 per cent of the overall prison population including foreign nationals (83,454) compared to 25 per cent of the overall prison population (76,190) in 2005. (Source: Ministry of Justice, 2010)...Race, ethnicity and crime: Case study: Racial disproportion in the US - Deborah Peterson Small is Executive Director of Break the Chains, a small non-profit advocacy...
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