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...Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 there were more Europhiles than Europhobes in the parliamentary party but this did not last; it came to a head initially through Margaret Thatcher with the saga of the Maastricht treaty and the subsequent flight from the exchange rate mechanism in 1992. From then on it has been a running sore and a significant cause of the rise of the...

...economically possible. Prompted by Paul-Francois Tremlett’s recent blog on physical protest objects, I would like to contribute my reflections on using language and discourse to imagine a politics beyond liberal rationalism. The 15M, which began in May 2011, was a protest against the economic crisis, the austerity measures imposed by the then Socialist Government, the...

...economic inequalities young people face...[A protester at the Occupy Wall Street protest, 2011.] A protester at the Occupy Wall Street protest, 2011. Global discontent Inequality is one of, if not the biggest, problems of our time. Unfettered global capitalism has given rise to huge global inequalities. Inequalities so vast that the top 0.1% of families in the world now...

...economically developed country than many of the countries that will be affected by climate change, such as Bangladesh. It is better placed to afford some of the large-scale engineering solutions, such as such as sea walls and river barriers that these countries cannot afford. The Thames Barrier was built following a tidal surge in 1953 caused by a combination of a high...