Fracking protesters accuse police of intimidation campaign

by guestblogger | Jan 20, 2015 | Features, Republished

Republished from From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study  publish about their research on other websites. This post republishes that work from the original article. By Dr Damien Short and Jessica Elliot Although only a small area of land has been...
Death Is the Ultimate Intimacy: Asa Cusack on why the Media Were Wrong to Show Video of Charlie Hebdo Policeman Ahmed Merabet’s Murder

Death Is the Ultimate Intimacy: Asa Cusack on why the Media Were Wrong to Show Video of Charlie Hebdo Policeman Ahmed Merabet’s Murder

by guestblogger | Jan 16, 2015 | Republished

With media outlets looking for a new angle on the French attacks, Dr Cusack’s thoughtful piece on the ethics involved in representing violent deaths in the news seem to have struck a chord. At least 9 publications have reproduced quotes from ‘Death is the ultimate...

Gangs: the real ‘humanitarian crisis’ driving Central American children to the US

by guestblogger | Dec 9, 2014 | Features, Republished

Republished from     From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study publish about their research on other websites. This post republishes that work from the original article. By David James Cantor, School of Advanced Study (Refugee Law Initiative)...

Is religion a consolation worth having?

by guestblogger | Dec 2, 2014 | Being Human festival, Republished

Republished from By Professor Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge) My idea of bliss is a Sunday walk that takes in first some English countryside, and second a pleasant medieval church, with some glass or woodwork or monuments. I once even wrote a piece,...

World War II began 75 years ago with censorship chaos that echoes down the decades

by Talking Humanities | Nov 11, 2014 | Being Human festival, Features, Ministry of Information Digital, Republished

From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study publish about their research on other websites. This post republishes that work from the original article. Republished from     By Henry Irving, School of Advanced Study (Institute of English Studies) At...

Chávez vs UKIP? How Latin America has reinvigorated the European left

by Talking Humanities | Oct 2, 2014 | Features, Republished

Radical left parties, Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, did well in the recent European elections. But how far can they go? And what are the lessons for the UK? Republished from     From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study  publish...
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