In Britain alone the proportion of people over 65 will rise by 2.5 million over the next few years as the post-war “baby boomer” generation hits retirement age. This will have serious implications for politics. In Britain, the general election of 2010 is likely to have a similar pattern ...
Like the Barbary apes at Gibraltar, and the ravens in the Tower of London. They are there, because they always have been there, and caring for them is enshrined in custom since time immemorial, or at least in this case, since the 1870s. But why – and since when? I began to wonder...
“For the first time, I declare my position regarding what is happening in Syria: Bashar Al-Assad is a delinquent, a criminal and a child-killer… The regime of Assad is the most criminal and backward regime of the Arab world. Shame on anyone who continues to remain silent. Every moment...
In contrast, the Muslim-majority country Qatar is heavily investing in the technology, and building a production plant with GOOD Meat. Meanwhile, in the London Beth Din (Court of the Chief Rabbi), there’s excitement at the prospect of a meat that could be a neu...
nationalities that made up a sizable proportion of the foreign workforce in Austria prior to EU-enlargement (Biffl2016: 101). The number of Romanians has also increased significantly since EU membership in 2007 (2016: 112); in 2014, quotas for seasonal work were further reduced as Bulgarians...
a是一把双刃剑 Is a double-edged sword[translate] a我今天一直想念你 I always think of you today[translate] a苛曼 ke graceful[translate] aAfter this, London's going to seem like small potatoes. 在此以后,伦敦的去似乎象小土豆。[translate] ...
of individuals, “normally the support of a fairly large proportion of the total number of political actors in the society is achieved before the coup is launched” (Huntington1968, p. 219). Such support is likely to be gained when government performance failures manifest themselves in ...
thus assuring the nomination. But the rules of delegate allocation change in many of the remaining states: they award delegates in a winner-take-all manner. Whoever wins gets all the delegates, rather than the delegates being assigned according to the proportion of the vote each candidate wins....
The Iranian regime occupiers to this day seek to increase the proportion of non-Arab settlers in Ahwaz, even changing the original Arabic names of cities, towns, rivers and other geographical features to Farsi names in an attempt to deny the region’s Arab identity. This systemic eradication ...
I'm truly glad because we refuse to bring them to Poland. This is the best thing our government did for us. I feel annoyed because of the UE which wants to impose us to admit the immigrants. I'd prefer to leave the UE than paying extremely high prices for every immigrant who is not...