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This is an interpretation of what was actually said
Skinner: Posh bastards Osborne and May were booed call an election now!
PM: We got a scab miner in the cabinet, Labour shld be proud.
By @teacherdude
With August coming to an end and the temperatures dropping from the low 40s C to low 30s C. The northern port city of Thessaloniki shakes off of its summer lethargy as people come back from their annual holidays and the town readies itself for the return of its large student population. However, amidst […]
By Judith Amanthis
A couple of miles west of Accra’s beach hotels is sweet smelling Lavender Hill. It’s where the city’s raw sewage is dumped into the Gulf of Guinea and it’s next to some of the poorest areas in town.
By Luke Cooper
Perhaps it was inevitable that attention would focus on François Hollande’s defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy, in what is undoubtedly a major blow to Europe’s political right. After all, the fall of Sarkozy potentially undermines the Franco-German consensus at the heart of the EU project, and leaves German Chancellor Angela Merkel more isolated than […]
By Lisa Glass / @lisaaglass
Currently, the value of global gender equality is top of the agenda for many Western governments and organisations such as the UN. The move to empower women and girls on a global scale is obviously in itself a positive step. However, the consequences of Western interventions in the global South need to be properly […]
An excellent profile of Sark by Sarah Montague can be heard here.
The Island of Sark with a population of 600, became probably the most representative democracy in the world in 2008, with a ratio of one elected representative for every 18 constituents. It also has an “free” press as in free from state control, local […]
The Professional Case for Withdrawing The Health and Social Care Bill from Daniel Saul on Vimeo.
It is now clear that though Accident and Emergency services will remain free at the point of delivery, everything bar sexual health services will not be statutory and may end being available in your local area. An excellent report by […]
Below is a transcript we’ve received from representatives of Industrial Workers of the World Cleaners’ Branch
An extract of the transcript can be heard on this video:
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