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New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?
Society, Politics & Law

New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?

...economic issues. Then he compounded his error by challenging Clinton’s qualifications to serve as president. Whatever one might think of Hillary Clinton, her service as Secretary of State and as a two-term U.S. Senator makes her as well qualified for the presidency as anyone in the race. Belatedly Sanders backtracked, declaring that “of course” Clinton was qualified...
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...economic nationalists worldwide. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, which is busy purging pro-E.U. “liberal élites” from national institutions and mainstreaming homophobia and anti-Semitism, would be thrilled by Rousseau’s warnings about the “cosmopolitans who go on distant bookish quests for the duties which they disdain to fulfill in their own...
Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...Economic Forum in Davos in January, it was estimated that the eight richest individuals in the World (all men incidentally) were worth a total of $426bn (£350bn), equivalent to the wealth of 3.6 billion people. Bill Gates, for example, has personal wealth of $87 billion. Meanwhile, people in dire poverty have to beg for the price of a cup of tea. There is a strong moral...
How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...Economic presented a relentlessly positive view of Jeremy Corbyn, an irredeemably damning view of his opponents, both outside and inside the party, and an intensely hostile view of the mainstream media. While partisan political blogging is not new, the new hyper-partisan sites have achieved a level of success outside the wonkish circles of their forebears. As pointed...
Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...economic, shopping and administrative life within Fermanagh is the county town of Enniskillen. No other centre of population comes close to its size and prominence. Much of the county’s industry is based in its natural resources. The internationally renowned Belleek pottery is founded on clay formed from the kaolin, feldspar and flint on the Belleek estate. The Irish...
Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...economic argument. As Andrew Mullen from Northumbria University discusses, the leave and remain campaigns employed similar strategies, but differed in their ability to connect with voters via social media. In his words, “The critical difference, […], was that the leave campaign was much more successful at targeting than the Remain campaign. Although the result was...
Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...economic model, the media, and so on. For once, we have to think long-term about our future. The result has usefully illuminated many of the stubborn problems that a post-Brexit Wales – whatever its constitutional status – must confront and tackle. As Richard Wyn Jones points out, the reality is that the Leave vote demonstrates the failures of devolution. Had the...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what cities do you...