https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=168256 2026-03-11T09:50:17Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=168256 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > economy and politics students do not perceive any reduction in their learning or subsequent performance as a consequence of copying solutions https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1670798 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422633122 2026-03-11T09:50:17Z their institution had removed the phrase “social justice” from a wall text as a way of softening the way a particular artist (a socialist, anti-racist figure) was presented https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1668680 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/donald-trump-smithsonian-reframe-entire-culture-united-states 2026-01-09T06:48:33Z International law varies depending on whether we like the country being invaded. What’s not to understand? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1668553 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/05/starmer-goes-full-sycophant-trump-politics-sketch 2026-01-06T08:46:09Z This fact points to a strategy that entertainment executives fear far more than AI, one that would empower artists to challenge the status quo across big content and big tech: organised labour. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1666897 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/15/big-content-ai-entertainment-media-conglomerates-tech 2025-11-16T09:54:03Z Almost 1,000 civilians have been killed and hundreds more injured in military drone attacks across Africa as the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles continues unchecked on the continent, according to a report. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1661425 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/10/drone-attacks-killing-hundreds-of-civilians-across-africa-says-report 2025-03-11T05:22:29Z The overall research question is: What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?—We work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared an... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1661352 https://cusp.ac.uk/about/ 2025-03-08T10:55:21Z Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1661351 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/08/growth-politics-public-good-society-rowan-williams 2025-03-08T10:54:30Z Examining the relationship between parental income and that of their offspring in their mid-30s, the study confirms the obvious: richer parents beget richer kids. More interesting is how economic outcomes of those from low-, middle- and top... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660135 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/29/wealthy-parents-greatest-asset-is-the-assets-they-will-pass-on 2024-12-29T08:36:43Z UPDATE: Musk said at his rally that one had to be a petition signer to be eligible for the $1 million prize. (“So– we really want to try to get as many people as possible to sign this petition. So. I have a surprise for you [crowd chee... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659135 https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146397 2024-11-02T06:07:43Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657674 https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/18/arts-workers-uk-working-class-roots-cultural-sector-diversity 2024-05-19T06:43:09Z Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were brought on to St Helena from slaving voyages intercepted by the British Navy. About one-third died shortly after and were buried on the island in unmarked graves. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657531 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/scraping-away-generations-of-forgetting-my-fight-to-honour-the-africans-buried-on-st-helena 2024-03-31T09:27:52Z Seshat: Global History Databank ✓ the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history ✓ collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies over time ✓ offers the means ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657450 https://seshat-db.com/ 2023-12-27T07:21:36Z Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan’s former prim... Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voic... opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his be... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657443 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/18/imran-khan-deploys-ai-clone-to-campaign-from-behind-bars-in-pakistan 2023-12-18T12:09:49Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1648768 http://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/ 2018-03-04T12:41:35Z The redistribution effects on households of direct and i... and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by househ... changing levels of income inequality over time. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1602010 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/theeffectsoftaxesandbenefitsonhouseholdincome/financialyearending2015 2017-04-20T08:02:39Z The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden... Reality Check verdict: The government is very reliant on ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1602009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39641222 2017-04-20T08:01:08Z There is immense concern about economic inequality, both... scholarly community and in the general public, and many ... equality is an important social goal. However, when peop... the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they ... unequal soc https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1601300 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0082 2017-04-11T17:01:38Z stories in The Guardian and on BuzzFeed revealed that th... of 55,000 was the registered home of at least 100 pro-Tr... of them filled with sensationalist, utterly fake news https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1596995 https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/ 2017-03-01T23:00:24Z Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr... Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusi ... It comes fr https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1589464 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance 2016-12-27T09:25:00Z A recently published research paper (paywall) by David E... Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that g... poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco... and Popova’s research is based on an examination of ni... assess the https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587759 http://qz.com/853651/definitive-data-on-what-poor-people-buy-when-theyre-just-given-cash/?utm_source=atlfb 2016-12-09T17:45:23Z The paper, updated this month, by economist Xavier Gabai... University, integrates behavioral economics findings int... a New Keynesian macroeconomic model—one that includes ... decisionmaking and markets that aren’t perfectly compe... the kind of https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1584023 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/this-new-economic-model-takes-into-account-the-fact-youre-irrational?utm_content=buffere02e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2016-11-03T12:14:18Z The gig economy has created an employment model that rob... rights they’ve earned over more than a century of figh... automation not to make a better world for everyone, but ... doing business on the backs of workers without providing... compensatio https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1582155 https://thebolditalic.com/how-the-gig-economy-profits-off-desperation-47bc5f04d11b#.g188ulbyc 2016-10-18T15:17:18Z the Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and... contrary to all popular belief, including that of most r... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1581962 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/03/13/the-conservatives-have-been-the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years/ 2016-10-17T12:41:41Z Which areas voted Leave? Did London vote for Remain? The... I wondered, Is it possible to make a map that better reflects the mo ... How much information can we include on one map? Can we see how separated the Home Nations are on Brexit? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1581959 https://medium.com/@jakeybob/brexit-maps-d70caab7315e#.h0sbnifk3 2016-10-17T12:22:21Z I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnell’s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1580058 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/03/13/the-conservatives-have-been-the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years/ 2016-09-28T21:02:51Z More than 4,000 people died within six weeks of being fo... work”, the Department for Work and Pensions has admitted. The figures cover the period between December 2011 to Fe ... Of the total, 1,360 died after losing an appeal against ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1578570 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thousands-die-after-being-declared-6348067 2016-09-14T18:35:45Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1511735 http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/11/women-taking-on-isis-iraq-yazidi-female-fighters?CMP=fb_gu 2015-09-12T16:44:08Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1511734 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/08/this-map-helps-explain-why-some-european-countries-reject-refugees-and-others-love-them/?postshare=9481442068898580 2015-09-12T16:41:31Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1509961 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31359021 2015-09-07T15:38:41Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1508671 http://reuniting-europe.blogactiv.eu/2014/04/02/ukraine-crisis-what-went-wrong/ 2015-09-03T11:57:17Z The system has a class bias as well as a race bias. An i... Alternet's Zaid Jilani revealed that in the first five m... 95 percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods ... incomes under $100,000. There were no killings in neighb... Not surpris https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1504273 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-jesse-jackson/police-shootings-are-about-class-as-well-as-race_b_7972218.html?utm_hp_ref=tw 2015-08-18T21:58:20Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1502480 http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/ 2015-08-11T19:35:55Z At the moment tax law ensures that companies based here,... other countries, don't get taxed twice on the same money... only the difference between our rate and that of the oth... example, Dirty Oil plc pays 10% corporation tax on its p... Foreign mea https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1498846 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century 2015-07-27T21:58:01Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1495393 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/26/crisis-what-crisis-britains-richest-double-their-wealth-in-10-years?CMP=share_btn_fb 2015-04-26T20:31:33Z In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chri... people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich r... there would be riots in the streets.” The findings of ... published over the last several years inPerspectives on ... Science, su https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1464358 http://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/the_american_people_are_clueless_why_income_inequality_is_so_much_worse_than_we_realize_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow 2015-04-02T13:29:00Z When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside â... consequences https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1462568 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/08/government-ministers-cost-cutting-pr 2015-03-23T10:26:49Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1458290 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/business/behind-monopoly-an-inventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=2 2015-02-21T19:17:48Z Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba cit... be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incom... And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated. The program was dubbed “Mincome” -- a neologism of â ... The project’s o https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1444200 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/city-eliminated-poverty-mincome_n_6392126.html?utm_hp_ref=tw 2014-12-31T10:54:14Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1437861 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/14/richest-1percent-half-global-wealth-credit-suisse-report 2014-11-23T12:36:19Z The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larg... United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1421942 http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/531726/technology-and-inequality/ 2014-10-21T20:46:28Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1404530 http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/nelson1.html 2014-09-29T14:53:43Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1403111 http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/ceos-get-paid-too-much-according-to-pretty-much-everyone-in-the-world/ 2014-09-27T18:13:27Z As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w... Below are t https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1353882 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ramesh-patel/growth-cameron-austerity_b_2007552.html 2014-04-14T09:03:21Z What follows may just seem to be a story about one cours... university, but it has important ramifications, not only... national debate about economics education, but for econo... politics itself. We, the Post-Crash Economics Society at... Manchester, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1352635 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/uk-universities-alternative-economics-models-post-crash-society?CMP=fb_gu 2014-04-08T11:45:32Z A local Conservative councillor has said the fact he str... table in restaurants at the weekends proves there is no ... Crawley councillor Liam Marshall-Ascough made the commen ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1349568 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/26/food-banks-crawley-liam-marshall-ascough_n_5034541.html 2014-03-27T08:12:37Z Current Mayor and Tory candidate Boris Johnson told us: "We're making the case now to central government for more funding. I'm making the argument to the Treasury that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Stra https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1341273 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjFboRwGiqc#t=90 2014-02-15T11:08:56Z At the end of 2011, the IPPR North thinktank totted up a... spending on transport projects up till 2015. Londoners e... investment of £2,731 per head, far outstripping any oth... north-east received a measly £5 per head. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1341221 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/public-money-private-wealth-london-north-v-south 2014-02-15T09:28:23Z This trend makes Utah’s accomplishment even more notew... years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 perce... to end homelessness by 2015. How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homele ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1319989 http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-giving-people-homes-1390495383 2014-01-23T21:21:40Z It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1312850 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/19/inequality-threat-recovery-poverty-pay 2014-01-20T10:46:03Z The extent to which so much global wealth has become cor... handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a ... Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people ... Working for the Few - Oxfam report Source: F. Alvaredo, ... The wealth https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1312848 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world 2014-01-20T10:39:52Z Police in north London have seized blankets, sleeping ba... donations from rough sleepers in a crackdown on homeless... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1296922 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-seize-possessions-of-rough-sleepers-in-crackdown-on-homelessness-8631665.html 2014-01-10T16:42:35Z In our currently unstable economy, many are finding that... – people are increasingly moving in and out of work, a... support between these brief spells of employment. Even t... are finding it hard to meet the cost of living – a clo... UK’s bene https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1294519 http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/entry/benefits-street-a-toxic-caricature-of-britains-poor 2014-01-09T07:05:04Z Lack of access to non-charging cashpoints is just one ex... dice are loaded against poor people in a free market https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1286931 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/02/cash-machines-poor-pay-more 2014-01-04T18:55:59Z As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w... Below are t https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1268670 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ramesh-patel/growth-cameron-austerity_b_2007552.html 2013-12-23T23:54:43Z A widely held view in elite circles is that the rapid ri... the United States over the last three decades is an unfo... These were jobs where people with limited education used ... This story is comforting to elites, because it means tha ... That's a ni https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1237701 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/technology-middle-class-jobs-policy 2013-11-29T18:53:29Z Science can explain a lot of things that I've always won... science!). In this case, it explains what I've known for... been unable to quite understand: Why do some folks who h... money than others seem to be less nice and more evil to ... At 0:50, so https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1152425 http://www.upworthy.com/take-two-normal-people-add-money-to-just-one-of-them-and-watch-what-happens-next?g=3 2013-10-23T21:53:31Z Investors’ behaviour on stock markets has been likened... irrationality described in Charles Mackay’s 1841 class... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But there i... positive view of what crowds can achieve. In his 2005 bo... Fama’s wo https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1148707 http://oecdinsights.org/2013/10/22/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-2013-of-the-madness-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds/ 2013-10-22T15:22:46Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1097006 http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/27/us/syria-intervention-justification/index.html 2013-08-31T16:56:39Z The majority of British children will soon be growing up... are struggling “below the breadline” because of welf... and wage freezes, the Government is warned today. Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nation’s 13m youn ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1024981 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/majority-of-british-children-will-soon-be-growing-up-in-families-struggling-below-the-breadline-government-warned-8531584.html 2013-03-14T08:12:03Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023251 http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/public-libraries-150-years-of-advance-is-being-destroyed/ 2013-03-10T12:29:27Z Occupy Wall Street’s slogan “We are the 99%” had b... the United States and the world for just over a month wh... Glattfelder and his co-authors released the study “The... Corporate Control” in October 2011. The study was a sc... our global https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1009800 http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/13/who-controls-the-world-resources-for-understanding-this-visualization-of-the-global-economy/ 2013-02-14T07:28:58Z As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w... Below are t https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006484 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ramesh-patel/growth-cameron-austerity_b_2007552.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false 2013-02-10T14:39:17Z The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble... The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ... Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ... In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow â ... ... people https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006215 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/welfare-fraud-tax-avoidance 2013-02-09T13:58:56Z The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied... The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ... US law allo https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006211 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/mps-call-for-government-to-consider-ending-use-of-cloud-amid-concerns-that-us-authorities-can-access-information-8473693.html 2013-02-09T13:53:44Z Britain is now the most unequal country in the Western w... authoritative new United Nations report reveals. The gap... poor is as great as in Nigeria. Detailed statistics in the Human Development Report publ ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1005636 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk-most-unequal-country-in-the-west-1329614.html 2013-02-08T13:07:14Z Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is drive... false notion that America’s Founders adopted the Secon... they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.... opposite is the truth, but many Americans seem to have e... The reality https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=954250 http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/real-rationale-2nd-amendment-right-wingers-are-totally-ignorant-about 2012-12-26T08:26:44Z The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and ter... how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A co... territory’s score indicates the perceived level of pub... corruption on a scale of 0 - 100, where 0 means that a c... as highly c https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=927473 http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results 2012-12-08T10:09:54Z Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=856492 http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/voices/2012/06/tax-avoidance-isnt-left-or-right-issue-its-cancer-eating-our-democracy 2012-09-28T10:13:13Z More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today. 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