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The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

Socio-Psychological Predictors of Belief in Conspiracy Theories of the Origin of COVID-19 and Involvement in Social Media

open access: yesСоциальная психология и общество, 2020
Objective. Search for socio-psychological antecedents for the individual’s belief in conspiracy theo- ries of the origin of the pandemic. Revealing the dynamics of Internet users’ attitudes to the coronavirus pandemic in March-early June 2020 ...
Nestik T.A.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Gender of Heteroclites1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories

open access: yes, 2011
Despite evidence of widespread belief in conspiracy theories, there remains a dearth of research on the individual difference correlates of conspiracist ideation.
Rebecca Coles   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

The Interaction Between Critical Thinking, Education and Belief in Conspiracy Theories among Young People (Aged 25–30)

open access: yesPsichologija
The goal of educational institutions (especially universities) is to foster critical thinking. However, with the rising popularity of social media and the rapid spread of unchecked information there, more and more people, especially young ones, are ...
Gintarė Butvilauskaitė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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