The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer
Abstract Keir Starmer's resignation in June 2026 has been narrated almost entirely in domestic terms: the rise of Reform UK, the rout of the May local elections, the winter fuel payment and two‐child benefit cap retreats, the Mandelson appointment. This article argues that such accounts mistake the proximate triggers for the underlying cause.
Tahir Abbas
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Catastrophic health care expenditure among older people with non-communicable diseases in 11 European Union Member States. [PDF]
Kutluer S, Pavlova M, Groot W.
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Financial toxicity profiles and their associations with healthcare utilization and catastrophic health expenditure in patients with primary liver cancer. [PDF]
Li H, Yang L, Zhao L, Wang W, Mei H.
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Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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Economic burden of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in Uganda: a cost-of-illness analysis. [PDF]
Bongomin F +4 more
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This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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National surgical, obstetrics, and anaesthesia plans in Sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative economic content analysis. [PDF]
Ifeanyichi M +8 more
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Moving Toward Universalism? The Future of Long‐Term Care in the United States
Policy Points America's long‐term care system is largely poverty‐based, requiring most older adults to spend down their assets to qualify for limited, Medicaid‐funded support, which is biased toward institutional care and plagued by bureaucratic complexity and enrollment hurdles. There are now, however, some promising changes.
PAMELA HERD
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Can a bigger budget shrink the bill at the bedside? Public health financing as a route to lower out-of-pocket spending in India. [PDF]
Sriram S.
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