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Brexit. When are we going to stop distracting ourselves with the “kingdom of the secondary?”
By Jon Swinden The issue from the beginning has been democracy. Real democracy vs formal democracy. About the referendum result. 48% to 52%. A day before, a day after, before lunch or after lunch? Any statistician worth his salt would…
Cracks Found in Nuclear Reactor That Could Lead to the Full Evacuation of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh Live – TRANSCEND Media Service The Hunterston B reactors in Ayrshire are the oldest in Europe, and dangerous cracks have been found. 8 Mar 2019 – Bottom of FormThe two reactors at Hunterston B nuclear power plant near Ardrossan…
Knife crime: causes and solutions – editors’ guide to what our academic experts say
Emily Lindsay Brown, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation, and Khalil A. Cassimally, The Conversation There has been a torrent of media coverage about violent crime among children and young people in the UK. But it seems to offer little…
Brexit deal flops, Theresa May survives – so what happens now?
Victoria Honeyman, University of Leeds for The Conversation As the clock ticks down to March 29 2019, all of the political manoeuvring, negotiating, arguing and fighting is coming to a peak. In the two and a half years since the…
Could we force politicians to tell the truth?
By DAVID MOUNTAIN 13 January 2019 for openDemocracy Politics is pre-truth not post-truth. Does the regulation of advertising provide some answers? It’s a truism that politicians lie. Even politicians themselves half-acknowledge this fact: they are, in their own words, ‘terminologically…
British Tax Havens resist regulation with threats of independence
“British overseas territories win reprieve after threatening legal action or secession”. The Guardian reports that “The government has been accused of defying parliament by delaying plans to require British tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands to bring in public registers…
Japan’s desperate need for migrant workers a warning for the UK
Caroline Nye, University of Exeter for The Conversation Japan brought in a controversial new labour policy at the end of 2018 which will open up blue-collar jobs to workers from countries such as Nepal, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. The…
UK 2019: Brexit, Universal Credit, Mental Ilness & Knives
Deal or no deal? Money or no money for the people? Are you sure you are not mentally ill? Oh!? Are you really sane? Did you hear about the latest stabbing in East London? These are the type of questions…
December 18th, International Migrants Day, solidarity and actions in the UK
Today people from all over the UK stood in solidarity with the Stansted 15, demanding an end to the hostile environment, an end to detention and an end to all forms of deportation. Over 50,000 people have signed the petition demanding…
Solidarity with migrants isn’t ‘terrorism’ – the Stansted 15 case shames the UK
GRACIE BRADLEY 11 December 2018 for openDemocracy We should cherish dissenters trying to stop human rights abuses – not imprison them under anti-terrorism laws designed to prevent further Lockerbie bombings. In March 2017, fifteen people tried to stop a secretive…
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