Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Migrants in the UK Sex Industry
In an environment of increasing labour migration, ever more restrictive immigration policy and an increasingly globalised capitalism that favours ‘flexible’, and low paid, workers, migrants have come to form the majority of those who sell sex.
ESRC Project findings,
Institute for the study of European Transformations, 2010
Overpopulation: 9 Billion Things to Talk About
We have met the enemy, and in our ever-growing, voracious multitudes, it is us! We have nine billion -- or is it 12? -- things to start talking about, asap.
David Katz, Huffington Post, 1 September 2010
A world too full of people
Politicians of western countries avoid talking about population control, but if we invest in family planning we might just save our planet.
Mary Fitzgerald,
New Statesman, 30 August 2010
NHS drug quango on spending spree
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which ruled out free cancer treatments, is splashing out on new staff
Robert Watts and Jamie McGinnes,
The Sunday Times, 29 August 2010
Drink, drugs and uneasy hypocrisy
Alcohol should not have a special status among narcotics. We need to toughen up on booze and lighten up on other drugs
James Meek,
Guardian, 28 August 2010
Health and safety laws are costing jobs
Britain's onerous health and safety laws are stifling enterprise and may have pushed up unemployment, the peer appointed to review the legislation warned last night.
Daily Telegraph, 27 August 2010
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