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Intersectionality

08/06/2013

Race, class, gender, sexuality, age, geography, identity and the economic inequality our system requires, comes down on women’s lives brutally....

What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits of Markets [Review]

05/06/2013

Like all manifestations of human agency, the market is just a tool, a means of negotiating and managing resources. If the markets can corrupt or wreck havoc, it is because we let them. ...

Badger Swagger Charity Single

04/06/2013

Badger Swagger invites the public to voice their opposition by signing up to the government e-petition site in order to make the government listen and stop killing badgers...

Company Profits at Workers Cost

02/06/2013

The decline of labor unions, is the main reason why U.S. corporate profits have surged while workers' wages and other compensation have declined....

Tyranny of the Reasonable

01/06/2013

Tyranny of the Reasonable: Popular Complacency in an Era of Economic Exploitation and Perpetual War...

Demonstrations Against The Racists This Saturday – Update

30/05/2013

Unite Against Fascism are organising peaceful demonstrations of unity against the racist EDL and the fascist BNP this Saturday...

Mad Dogs and Englishmen?

29/05/2013

The EDL attempt to exploit the murder of Lee Rigby by trying to whip up a storm of hatred against all Muslims....

Bedroom Tax – Pay Up or Pack Up

25/05/2013

The “Bedroom Tax”, which came into force on 1st April 2013 has already been implicated in one suicide and led to an unprecedented increase in applications for emergency housing benefit payments. ...

Legal Aid Cuts – Justice Denied

18/05/2013

A criminal defence solicitor speaks out against legal aid cuts...

Within The National (In)Security State 2

11/05/2013

Dismiss the cracked brain guardians of perpetual and displaced fear and regain the ability to move freely in the world...

Within The National (In)Security State: Fear as a Constant Companion

04/05/2013

How belligerently ignorant nationalists will forfeit their rights for the illusion of safety....

Bloodstock to Support Teenage Cancer Trust

01/05/2013

For the third year running and after a record-breaking 2012, Teenage Cancer Trust is to benefit from the Bloodstock Open Air festival again this summer. ...

And then she was gone

18/04/2013

Perhaps some of the cheers were from people glad she was gone, who knows?...

The Legacy of Thatcher

17/04/2013

As Thatcher is buried, we examine the legacy of her policies in several key areas...

UK Drug Policy Not Scientific

12/04/2013

UKdrug policy : Government decision to promote abstinence for drug users 'is about saving money not science' ...

Satirical doublespeak? Is Orwell Outdated?

18/03/2013

Satirical doublespeak? New York Times Book Review calls Nineteen Eighty-four “outdated”...

City layout key to predicting riots

12/03/2013

Developed by researchers at UCL, the model highlights the importance of considering the layout of cities in order for police to suppress disorder as quickly as possible once a riot is in progress....

Feeling good about spending money on someone else rather than for personal benefit may be a universal response among people in both impoverished countries and rich nations, according to new research...

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Rigorous Imagination and the Polis of the Psyche

09/03/2013

Circumstances do not change unless perceptions change. ...

Adult Choices: Fruit presentation in School Lunchrooms

02/03/2013

In the lunchrooms , changes were implemented to improve the convenience and attractiveness of fruits and vegetables and make the selection of fruits and vegetables seem standard through verbal cues...

Empire Of Panic And Ephemera

02/03/2013

Keep buying stuff. More stuff! As long as you buy stuff, nobody needs to get hurt. The politics of Empire...

Miscarriage and War Stress

28/02/2013

Rocket attacks in Sderot, Israel significantly increase the likelihood of miscarriages, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers....

Electoral fraud in Moscow

19/02/2013

A large-scale field experiment conducted during the December 2011 parliamentary elections in Russia suggests that fraud had a significant impact on the results. The research marks an advance in...

The Great Dismal

16/02/2013

Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds the breathing moment. Future generations will dwell in the world we erect, thought by thought, deed by deed....

Super Mario Brothers, Reptilian Rape and the Hollow Earth Theory

15/02/2013

The ideology of imperialism runs deep in Bowser. He is also, at least, a kidnapper, but more probably a pedophile. ...

Anger, Passion, and Destiny in the USA

09/02/2013

There has been a deadly legacy wrought by social structures that inflict shame and thus sow seeds of inarticulate rage. ...

Caring friends can save the world

07/02/2013

Research shows that "wanting to improve the world starts with teens caring about their friends, Concordia research shows."...

Global warming less extreme than feared?

05/02/2013

Global warming less extreme than feared? Internationally renowned climate researcher Caroline Leck of Stockholm University has evaluated the Norwegian project and is enthusiastic....

Cis or gender. What’s Your Privilege?

26/01/2013

Transphobia is not about an academic term, it is about the reality of living in a country where you can’t even guarantee your doctor will speak to you like a human being, and where the risk of...

Guns: America’s Addiction

19/01/2013

America is addicted to guns and the politics of aggression, aimed entirely at the target audience of consumers, is exploited for commercial and artistic gain....

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