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Strange Bedfellows

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From the Telegraph, which in turn credits the Mail, so we shall see how things come to pass...

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Single-mindedness

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He said: “I think the point about the discussion of different diplomacies was the sense that French diplomacy is very good at a single-minded pursuit of a perception of the national interest.

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In Backhanded Defence...

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...of the heads which purportedly should roll at the Crown Prosecution Service: if our sovereign parliament passes a confused, misconceived law reflecting a prurient interest in people’s sexuality, then it might be thought an act of dutiful consistency for the C.P.S. to wield it in a confused, misconceived fashion reflecting a prurient interest in people’s sexuality. …

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Piracy and Parity

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In the news:

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Disagreeable

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A referendum on whether to elect members of the House of Lords would be unnecessary and expensive, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said... “Unlike the referendum last year, [it] is the subject of complete consensus between the parties; we all had manifesto commitments to deliver House of Lords reform.”
B.B.C. News

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Your Vote Counts

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He told Sunday Politics that the Conservative [sic] make up five-fifths of the coalition...

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Labour and Capital

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People coming to live in the UK from outside the EU must ‘add to the quality of life in Britain’, immigration minister Damian Green has said. He argued Britain does not need more ‘middle managers’ or unskilled Labour...

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Stretching It...

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And for centuries there were political links across the North Sea. The first Viking raid on Iona is thought to have taken part [sic] in 794...
The B.B.C. explains Scottish-Scandinavian political ties

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Some Great Ideal

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Let us... state, in view of the fact that all knowledge and every pursuit aims at some good, what it is that we say political science aims at and what is the highest of all goods achievable by action. Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior …

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Employability By Other Means

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‘Dr Adams suggested that the government could incentivise companies, perhaps through tax breaks, to employ people with doctorates—the number of PhDs awarded annually has risen by about 50 per cent since 1998.’
(T.H.E.S.)

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When I Was a Lad, We Had Proper Moral Panics...

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The Bailey review into placating parental anxiety (at least, that seems to be how its creators would like us to understand it) has now been published, and as expected its recommendations include one to the effect that ‘the Internet industry should ensure that customers must make an active choice over what sort of content they want …

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The Faked Civil Servant

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What’s in a name?

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Utopian Refit: bolo’bolo

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According to the Provisional Schedule in the first English printing of bolo’bolo we should now all be living happily in bolos..., enjoying hospitality everywhere, working some, playing some, sleeping some and not worrying about anything. Nation-states, armies, big companies, 9-to-5 jobs..., etc. should be no more than dim memories... [and there should be] a patchwork of …

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The Glorious New Student-Led Market In Higher Education...

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Anticipatory student graffiti in Durham...apparently looks like this:

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Smoke-Powered

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A comment on health policy implies a possible principle of political justice:

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