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A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk
Society, Politics & Law

A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk

...business with another, it is quite understandable that the EU became a little impatient with noises being made about “urgent and necessary” reforms but no clear list of demands ever being submitted. Finally, on November the 10th this year Cameron outlined what he and others have called a 'list of demands' in a letter to the president of the European Council, Donald...
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Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws
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Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws

...business of the day reading the requisition we have already given. For his own part (he said) he was no orator. He would, therefore, at once, come to the point. (Hear, hear) He thought it was high time that something was done by the farmers in opposition to the League. They had stool still quite long enough - (hear, hear) - and consequently had allowed the League to gain...
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How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
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How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...business, and the company’s founder, Sir Clive Sinclair, became a poster child for entrepreneurship – although he was eventually forced to sell Sinclair Research to Amstrad’s Alan Sugar in 1986, after a disastrous flirtation with the C5 electric vehicle. But a different kind of cultural entrepreneur was behind the micro boom, too. The “bedroom coder” of the...
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Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?
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Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?

...Business School of Cambridge University, I argued that the economic impact of Brexit (“hard” or “soft”) on the British economy is likely to be serious in the short run, but manageable if its government applies appropriate fiscal policies. The big loss from leaving, however, will be political and social. Namely, losing EU treaty protection of important...
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Catalonia: What happens now?
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Catalonia: What happens now?

...business PDeCAT. It’s possible that its radical left bedfellows the ERC will emerge as the dominant pro-independence force in the December election. The pro-Spain camp The parties in favour of Catalonia remaining within Spain are confronting their own set of dilemmas. Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) has always struggled in Catalonia, where moderate, centre-right voters...
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Northern Ireland’s dance to the music of time of Brexit
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Northern Ireland’s dance to the music of time of Brexit

...business) will be large, adding to the existing total expended on Brexit to date. The original estimate of the loss of national income to NI from Brexit was around 3% up to 2025-2030, but the subsequent UK government study suggested that the loss from the various post-Brexit trade deals could be between 2.5% for just remaining in SEM; 8% for a Free Trade Agreement; and,...
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Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet
Science, Maths & Technology

Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet

...busy place. NASA/Johns Hopkins University APL/SRI/Alex Parker A linguistic fudge Nevertheless, the IAU shied away from completely stripping the Pluto of its appellation of planet by inventing a new term, dwarf planet. This denotes an object orbiting the sun that has not cleared its orbit, but which has sufficient mass for its own gravity to have pulled it into a...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...business - anyone could do it. Physicians with university degrees treated internal illnesses. Surgeons, who learnt by apprenticeship, treated wounds, fractures and external illnesses. Apothecaries made and sold medicines, barber surgeons bled patients and pulled teeth. Herbal remedies were administered by those who had learned the tradition orally - often harnessing the...
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