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Should we take our leaders as seriously as they take themselves? Political leaders invest time and energy in cultivating their public...
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Burma and North Korea - Avoid the Law unless Convenient Conflicts in both these countries show the real limits of...
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Middle Class Recruits Professor Morgan, of the University of Manchester, examines the wider...
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More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...
The Great Depression and ‘Embedded Liberalism’ The Great Depression posed a serious threat to capitalism as economic nationalism flourished and Communism and Fascism offered alternative models.