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Management Politics in China Today
In China, for almost a century, restoring national pride has remained an important theme but more significantly, for the moment, the expert and the manager have supplanted the intellectual as the national standard bearer.
Alan Hudson,
China Review, September 2008
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Balanced Migration - A new approach to controlling immigration
A new report argues that the number of immigrants who are given permission to settle permanently in this country should be kept to approximately the same level as the number of British citizens who are emigrating
MigrationwatchUK, 8 September 2008
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Shell energy scenarios to 2050
Never before has humanity faced such a challenging outlook for energy and the planet. This can be summed up in five words: “more energy, less carbon dioxide”.
Shell, 2008
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Labour's 3,600 new ways of making you a criminal
Ever tried selling a grey squirrel, impersonating a traffic warden, importing Polish potatoes or disturbing a pack of eggs without permission? If you do, you will be breaking the law.
Daily Mail Reporter,
Daily Mail, 5 September 2008
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On the death of Darwish
The dialectic of home and exile enables a poetry, not of hope – in this case, the always-present longing for return – but of creation. Home is not the land you knew and will greet again (though Darwish would remain throughout his life a defender of the Palestinian cause), but a place impossibly unknown
Colman Durkee,
Culture Wars, 4 September 2008
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Evolving consensus
Whilst on one level, being suspicious of elite organisations and challenging the unearned political authority of science is useful, Fuller misses the point that just because the elite believe it, doesn’t make it automatically wrong for the rest of us to agree.
Robin Walsh,
Culture Wars, 4 September 2008
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More than 3,600 new offences under Labour
The Government has created more than 3,600 new criminal offences since it won power 11 years ago – almost one for every day it has been in office.
Nigel Morris,
Independent, 4 September 2008
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