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Dr summarises the 2013 Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium:
"Although the papers were diverse in their topics of focus, if there was one theme that I found threaded throughout the day it was the sense that travel practices and narratives serve not so much to connect, but rather to destabilise categories of identity, places, narratives...
Khat to be banned by UK government
The herbal stimulant khat is to be banned by the government, against the advice of its own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Prof David Anderson is co-author of The Khat Controversy: Dealing with the Debate on Drugs (2007) and was part of the ACDM's Working Party on khat in the UK.
Greece: political meltdown will cut off green shoots of growth
Greece's Democratic Left party says it is pulling out of the coalition government amid a row over the closure of national broadcaster ERT. , 糖心TV 糖心TV School, gives his analysis.
What can economic history teach us about the BRICS?
Rising public transport costs and the expense of staging the 2014 World Cup has led to protests across Brazil, one of the BRICS countries. Economist Professor looks at what economic history can teach us about the BRICS growth prospects.
Department of Economics Professor Mark Harrison explains why we need economic historians and why the USSR reminded him of Tolkien’s Mordor.