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Government by WhatsApp? Transparency, Secrecy and Avoidance during Covid in the UK
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract It has been claimed repeatedly that transparency undermines decision‐making. The fear of disclosure means officials and politicians may not discuss policy fully, are inhibited from giving frank advice, and could avoid proper record keeping. The use of informal communications—particularly the use of WhatsApp—makes all these tensions more likely,
Ben Worthy, Martin Rosenbaum
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Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Liberal Democrats emerged from the 2024 election with their largest parliamentary party since 1923. The 2026 elections saw further progress in English local government and Scottish parliamentary elections, with support consolidating in areas of strength.
David Howarth
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Steam Engine His Lordship and Tom Albert
Photograph of Tom Albert from Bolton in the centre standing in front of ex Silcock's Burrell showman's road locomotive steam traction engine No.3444 'His Lordship', registration CK3403' (built 1913) taken circa 1959.
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The Perils of Proportional Representation for Ethnic Minorities
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Two arguments about ethnic minorities run through the debate over replacing first past the post. One promises that proportional representation would represent minorities better; the other worries that it would empower the parties they have most reason to fear. This article argues that the promise is unreliable and the worry real.
Tarunabh Khaitan
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Cum populo et non cum milicia. Un inedito frammento di statuti piacentini (metà secolo XIII)
Studi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova Serie, 2018 Among all the parchments used as cover material for notarial registers in the city of Piacenza, it stand out a bifolium containing a part of the most ancient communal statutes that dates back to the second half of 13th century.
Maddalena Moglia
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Religious Concerns About COVID-19 Vaccines: From Abortion to Religious Freedom. [PDF]
J Relig Health, 2022 Jones DG.
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Kairos (English Ed.), 2010 In a context in which the significance of Scripture for everyday life is fading away, this article is an argument for the centrality of the Bible as the basis for a holistic understanding of reality and for an authentic Christian engagement in ...
Corneliu Constantineanu
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An inventory of adjuvants used for vaccination in horses: the past, the present and the future. [PDF]
Vet Res, 2023 Carnet F +5 more
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