Chadwick Jackson Our sincerest apologies to the British electorate and political establishment for the recent election surge in interest from the [...]
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Category "Viewpoint"
Viewpoints on topics in the news.
Viewpoint: Musical Chairs and the Social Mobility Industry
Geoff Payne Social mobility – the way people move or fail to move from one position in the social hierarchy to [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Marriages of convenience in times of crises
Irene Messinger Marriages of convenience have always been used as a means of survival in times of crisis. During WWII women [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Reflections on the European Union’s Future by Way of its Past
M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado Historians are frequently asked what the present can learn from the past, so it was no surprise that [...]
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Viewpoint: From Fear to Hope, from Protest to Resistance
Ann Kaloski-Naylor 9 November 2016: “Dear Universe, we are sorry for everything. Love from the last humans.” This was my Facebook [...]
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Viewpoint: The New ‘New Right’ – Trump’s Political Earthquake
Desmond King Four decades ago the concurrent Thatcher and Reagan governments heralded the arrival of the ‘New Right’ political agenda, which [...]
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Duped by the Automated Public Sphere
Frank Pasquale The public sphere has endured yet another structural transformation. Megafirms like Facebook and Google have largely automated the [...]
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Viewpoint: Consuming Sexualised and Gendered Bodies
Sue Scott I have been reading writing and researching on gender and sexuality since the 70s (since the early 90s much [...]
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Viewpoint: Post-democracy, post Brexit – an interview with Colin Crouch
Mark Carrigan, interviewer It's been over fifteen years since you first offered your analysis of post-democracy. What is post-democracy and has [...]
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Viewpoint: Jeremy Corbyn, the PLP and Historical Visions of the Labour Party
Matt Dawson The re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party has demonstrated the fundamental split between two visions [...]
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