Philip Pullman thinks this coin needs another comma. What do you think?
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Philip Pullman’s call for a boycott against the new 50p coin is just the latest Oxford comma controvery.
Let battle commence.
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The US reaction to the UK’s digital tax proposals is like 1765 all over again.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (centre) with a host of African leaders at the UK Africa Investment Summit in London.
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Trade and investment can help reduce poverty, promote women’s empowerment, and support children’s rights. It can also do the opposite.
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The Commonwealth’s ‘golden age’ wasn’t entirely dazzling.
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Sweeping changes are in store for British farming, but they’re not guaranteed to benefit struggling ecosystems.
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Boris Johnson has proposed the public ‘bung a bob for a Big Ben bong’ to commemorate Brexit.
Many fear the U.K. will be worse off economically outside the EU.
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Brexit represented British voters’ desire to reclaim more control over their economic future, but some worry the cost will be some of the prosperity gained from globalization.
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Research consistently finds that immigration has little, if any, impact on the employment prospects of UK-born workers. But it doesn’t account for possible regional variations.
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Public opinion is likely to pose an additional constraint to Boris Johnson’s attempts to strike post-Brexit trade deals.
Who’s manipulating what you know before you vote?
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Information warfare has gone global. Here are some recent campaigns, and a couple of ideas about how to fight back.
On the mend?
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While Johnson brings a modicum of certainty about the UK’s direction of travel – out of the EU – its future beyond 2020 remains uncertain.
It’s all over now, baby blue.
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What lay behind Team Corbyn’s woeful campaign.
With Johnson’s crushing win, Brexit will now happen. But this may also be the start of the break-up of the UK.
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Johnson is back at No 10- but British voters may be in for a rude shock when they realise his is a much tougher and more conservative agenda than many believe.
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The general election 2019 has delivered a seismic shift in the balance of British politics.
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At times is feels as though the prime minister wants the top job for the sake of having it. But now he’s got a long term in office to map out.
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Trust is no longer a trump card in British politics.
Boris Johnson: heading back to Downing Street.
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December 13, 2019
Paul James Cardwell , University of Strathclyde ; Costas Milas , University of Liverpool ; Hanna Szymborska , The Open University ; Helen Parr , Keele University ; Katy Hayward , Queen's University Belfast ; Ken Rotenberg , Keele University ; Kevin Albertson , Manchester Metropolitan University ; Sean Kippin , University of Stirling , and Victoria Honeyman , University of Leeds
Our panel of experts analyse the results of the British election.
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From Brexit and Labour’s future to Britain’s new political battlegrounds, here’s the expert lowdown on what Boris Johnson’s predicted landslide win means.
Polling has Boris Johnson’s Conservatives holding a comfortable lead over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour, but the election will be decided on a seat-by-seat basis.
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The outcome of this week’s general election is far from certain, but whatever happens, the nation’s deep divides are unlikely to be healed.
Doctors protest against what they see as the Conservative Party’s push to privatise the health service.
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One side wants to ‘get Brexit done’ while the other shouts the ‘NHS is not for sale!’. What does it all really mean?