Privatisation of public services is likely to have had an adverse impact on population health and contributed to the increase in inequities. This review suggests that there is little evidence for the benefits of privatisation, with a need for greater attention to political and commercial determinants ...
Without skipping a beat, Deaglan told councillors that “I am proud to build the Marxism conference. Student unionism in this country is in dire straits. It is in dire straits because of the politics of the Labor factions, and the politics of factions like Grassroots.”...
Everything is changing, and this information needs to come back out into collective awareness as soon as possible. I also believe, that up until 500 or so years ago, Humanity was on a positive evolutionary path and in Unity Consciousness, and that around 1492 was the beginning of the ...
The side-yard is the reason our house has light on three sides, a clearing in the otherwise closely-spaced Victorian twins that line the streets of our neighborhood, clothed in their surprising splashes of yellow and purple and blue. The side-yard has an ecology of its own. It was once ...
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This article briefly summarizes the place of guns in British society and culture in the long eighteenth century. My approach is that of a historical anthropologist, examining the meaning of guns from the way they were used and depicted. I examine the way
Welcome to year four of everything I’m reading, watching and listening to in regard to the multiple planetary crises’ we face (the polycrisis), as well as articles on important social issues, because how societies function is fundamental if we want to have a stable e...
I have a mild interest in historic costuming, since I do like to dress in period Victorian or Edwardian attire for book events. And the sarcasm is occasional diverting, especially when aimed at badly done costuming, or at a variety of commonly-committed goofs in the genre – things like ...
However, after the Victorian era ended and Modernism started, the modern literature’s influence (I believe) was WW1 and WW2. When you read “Gone with the Wind” and read about people like Ashley Wilkes, you begin to question the purpose of fighting wars. They have always written of ...
but the most common are tenancy in common and joint tenancy. Getting a mortgage for co-owned homes can be challenging, and they may be hard to sell. Ever wish you could buy avacation homein Colorado, a seven-bedroom Victorian manor, or literally any home in San Francisco? While ...