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Lee Kuan Yew as Commonwealth statesman

by Talking Humanities | Apr 6, 2015 | Features, Projects, Republished

By Dr Ruth Craggs, lecturer in human geography, King’s College London. Politicians and diplomats from around the world have begun to offer tributes this week as it was announced that Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew died on Monday, 23 March 2015. Lee...

Malcolm Fraser: a giant of the Commonwealth

by Talking Humanities | Apr 2, 2015 | Features, Republished, Research & Resources

By Dr Sue Onslow, senior research fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies. On 27 March 2015, Australians gathered to pay their respects to former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in a state funeral following the politician’s death late last week. As Singaporeans...

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,...
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