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UK Housing Crisis
A Costly Revocation

 

Britain’s housing shortage looks set to worsen in the coming year, as a Government shift in planning policy has seen councils reject projects to deliver more than 7,500 new homes.

 

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Immigration
When Is A Spade Not A Spade?

 

A new permanent limit on the number of non-EU workers entering the United Kingdom will come into effect from April 2011... 

 

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Privacy
Whose Data Is It Anyway

 

If the 20th century was marked by a fascination with the potential of modern technology, then surely our own century will be marked by an ever increasing concern with the ‘big brother’ state...

 

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Barcelona
A Work In Progress

 

In 1859 Ildefons Cerdà changed the trajectory of Barcelona forever. It was his masterful plan of the city which created the metropolis that we know today...

 

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Wind Energy
When The Wind Blows

 

The use of renewable energy has, historically, never been a priority in the UK in the same way as it has Europe; demand for electricity has been met easily through existing supplies of fossil fuels...

 

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Honduras
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When the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was deposed in a military coup last June, the response from the United States was unequivocal; “we believe that the coup was not legal"...

 

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A Tumbling Leader
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When the Axe Falls
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