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    Conflict and Regret: MDU Mulls over the Iraq war

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    The Manchester Debating Union, University of Manchester, 5th December 2013 The Manchester Debating Union gathered for their final debating event of the winter semester entitled ‘Ten years on, this house regrets the Iraq War of 2003’. Dr Steven Hurst and Amir Barik of the Politics, Philosophy, and Public Services department at Manchester Metropolitan University sat…

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    “Mandela’s legacy will long live on”: Nelson Mandela Obituary (1918-2013)

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    By Natalie Carragher South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela, died on Thursday 5th December 2013, aged 95. The news hits me just after midnight with a quick scroll down my Facebook newsfeed. I was immediately exposed to a barrage of ‘RIP Mandela’ statuses. News websites were quick to flood the internet with tributes and…

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    Kiev: A New Revolution?

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    For a nation so finely balanced between Moscow and Europe, both socially and politically, a significant move in either direction will always threaten to tip the scales. For many Ukrainians, particularly in the west of the country, President Viktor Yanukovych’s reticence to bring the country further into Europe’s sphere of influence does not represent a…

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    Scrooge Leaps for Joy In Northern Ballet’s Interpretation Of A Classic

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    Written by Chloe M. Thornton “Marley was dead: to begin with.” So goes the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ much loved novella, A Christmas Carol. Morose, it may seem, the beginning to the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from a ‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner’ to the man who becomes a ‘second…

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    What does it mean to be a Global Citizen in the 21st Century?

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    Experiencing and engaging with citizenship in a global context – the third and final public lecture in the Global Societies series, Monday, 2nd December, as part of the Humanities in Public programme at MMU. Dr Darren O’Byrne, Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Human Rights at University of Roehampton, delivered an enlightening lecture on global citizenship…

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