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Legitimate expectations

November 10, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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'Should governments do what they said they were going to do? Let's suppose you're the head of a secondary school and you apply to the government for some funding for a major rebuilding project. The education minister writes saying you will get the money. So you call in the bulldozers…

What British Muslims think about the term ‘British values’

October 30, 2017November 14, 2017 by Admin

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Researchers at UEA investigate what 'British values' means to Muslims living in the region. [caption id="attachment_3451" align="aligncenter" width="926"] Views on British values, from British Muslims. Alif. Lam. Mim. by M.Malik[/caption] Channel 4’s recent programme My Week as a Muslim, in which a non-Muslim woman lived with a Pakistani family for…

The Trump Guide to Digging Yourself Out of a Hole

October 27, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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A satirical take on the way Trump handles PR crises in the style of Machiavelli's The Prince. We all do it from time to time, or maybe more often than that. We dig ourselves into a hole. Well folks, here’s how to handle it. First, don’t even think about stopping…

British Values, Islam, East Anglia: Some findings and an invitation

October 16, 2017November 14, 2017 by Admin

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Watch a trailer for, and find out about, UEA’s AHRC-funded project on British [Muslim] Values. Over the last year or so, Eylem Atakav, Lee Marsden and I have been working on an AHRC-funded project titled: British [Muslim] Values: Conflict or Convergence. The aim of the project is to explore (i)…

Why the idea of ‘generation’ needs to be articulated more carefully in politics

October 13, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Ben Little and Alison Winch explain the different meanings of generation in political culture and highlight the tension that exists between them. They argue that a successful application of the concept is able to mark both continuity and difference, turning the power of conservative thought to radical ends. In mainstream…

Strengthening Migrant Rights in Post-Brexit Britain

October 13, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Post financial crisis, the most persistent scapegoats for many parts of society has been migrants and refugees. Used by mass media, politicians and common people alike, the problems of Europe have been condensed in the spiteful image of the ‘others’. ‘Others’ to imagined national communities, ‘others’ to the European project…

Japan’s controversial, shrewd and ambitious Shinzo Abe

October 5, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe campaigns in a snap election, he looks set to enter into an unprecedented third term in office, and become Japan’s longest serving postwar prime minister. So who is he? What is the secret to his success? And why is he both so fervently supported…

Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it

August 16, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Over the last four months, hardly a day has gone by without news coverage of the political and economic crisis in Venezuela. At least 124 people have been killed, some by security forces, while participating in or accidentally encountering opposition-led street demonstrations. The mainstream media narrative is of an increasingly…

EU referendum: one year on – the member states

July 3, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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How is Brexit seen in other national capitals a year after the referendum? UEA's Hussein Kassim offers his analysis. Despite the UK’s well-earned reputation as an “awkward partner”, none of the member states wanted to see it leave the EU. They have been perennially puzzled by the UK’s domestic debate…

Minority report – Single party minority governments are pretty common and reasonably durable

June 20, 2017June 21, 2017 by Admin

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A government without a majority in the legislature is exceptionally rare, right? Dr. Chris Hanretty myth busts this assumption as the UK heads towards one. Following the general election earlier this month, it looks as though the UK will get a single party minority government formed by the Conservative party…

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