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Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?
Money & Business

Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?

...UK or move to France or Germany. This article originally appeared on the LSE EUROPP blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence This article draws on ‘From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin’ by Paola Conconi, Manuel GarcíaSantana, Laura Puccio and Roberto Venturini, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1525 and forthcoming in the American Economic Review....
What would it take to save British Home Stores?
Money & Business

What would it take to save British Home Stores?

...buyers – albeit possibly not for continued retail operations. Whether enough of the brand can be retained for a high street and internet business model is also a moot point. While 11,000 staff wait to hear their fate, the situation looks precarious to say the least.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?
Society, Politics & Law

Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?

...So, as the UK woos India, India is playing to its own electorate and interests. Even on British soil, there is a politics of trade, business and democracy – just not the UK’s, but its own. Britain would do well to not take India for granted for post-Brexit business.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?
Digital & Computing

What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?

...don’t understand the actual problem. Even if you were to remove the end-to-end encryption from WhatsApp, criminals could create their own, similar, software that would allow them to communicate securely, while ordinary users would lose the ability to send genuinely private messages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...article below reflects on sudden, violent mass death, drawing largely on the experience of 9/11, many of the core messages apply to pandemics as well. People are likely to experience different forms of grief and communities may respond in variety of manners. And whilst there may not be the same need to search for bodies as there would be after a terrorist attack or...
International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...a world of connections - with Europe and with other countries, including the Commonwealth. Only when the power and necessity of these connections and their role in making the UK what it is today is recognised will anti-immigration arguments and sentiments about Europeans and non-Europeans alike be challenged. This article was previously published on the LSE Brexit Blog...
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...article was used to support the OU / New Economics Foundation event - Interdependence Day - held in July 2006. A longer version of the article appeared in Soundings, Issue 32 Spring 2006. More on the London bombings How do you design a memorial for a terrorist attack? That question was explored by an episode of our podcast Changing Approaches To Heritage. The singular and...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...where one can glimpse alternative geographies and ways of making these more tangible. Kim Kullman is a Lecturer in Geography and has recently worked on the new module ‘Environment and Society’ (DD213). Vidmina Stasiulyte is a fashion designer and audio-visual artist based in the Design Department at the University of Borås in Sweden. Read more articles like this ​...