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Is Valentine’s Day worth the romantic investment? Here’s what we can learn from economics
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Is Valentine’s Day worth the romantic investment? Here’s what we can learn from economics

shutterstock Evgeny Karandaev/Shutterstock Expressing affection can be expensive. Spending on heart-shaped gifts, romantic cards, chocolates and flowers (other gifts are available) to celebrate Valentine’s Day has reached close to £1 billion in the UK. So the value of Valentine’s to retailers seems clear enough. But just how valuable is the annual ritual to consumers? What […]
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Modern slavery: how the UK government’s 2023 reforms made it harder for victims to prove they are being exploited
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Modern slavery: how the UK government’s 2023 reforms made it harder for victims to prove they are being exploited

As many as 130,000 people in the UK are trapped in modern slavery, according to the recently appointed independent anti-slavery commissioner, Eleanor Lyons. These people are forced to work in a variety of exploitative situations, ranging from cannabis farms to building sites to sex work. Lyons has been raising concerns that the government has cut […]
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How valuable is Elon Musk’s ‘charismatic’ leadership? That’s the 56 billion dollar question
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How valuable is Elon Musk’s ‘charismatic’ leadership? That’s the 56 billion dollar question

kovop/Shutterstock Maybe the Tesla directors who agreed to pay Elon Musk US$56 billion were just feeling generous. Or maybe, as the judge who cancelled this “unfathomable” deal suggested, they really were “starry eyed” and swayed by Musk’s “superstar appeal”. In her ruling, Kathaleen McCormick said those who decided to give Musk the biggest pay cheque […]
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Female food-delivery riders in China were recently falsely accused of selling sex – here’s what it tells us about women in the workplace
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Female food-delivery riders in China were recently falsely accused of selling sex – here’s what it tells us about women in the workplace

As if it wasn't tough enough already. B.Zhou Life isn’t easy for the approximately 1 million women working as takeaway delivery riders in China. Though their numbers appear to be rising as delivering food is convenient for fitting around childcare or retraining for new careers, these women have to live with gender pay gaps and […]
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Lula da Silva keeps his promise: Amazon deforestation reduced by 64%
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Lula da Silva keeps his promise: Amazon deforestation reduced by 64%

No more homelessness – a goal that sounds like utopian fiction may become reality soon. The “Housing First” concept in Finland, supported by NGOs like the Y-Foundation, is aiming towards the end of homelessness in 2027. In a new interview, Juha Kahila, Head of International Affairs at the Y-Foundation, talks about the implementation of “Housing […]
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Sexism permeates every layer of the music industry – new report echoes what research has been saying for years
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Sexism permeates every layer of the music industry – new report echoes what research has been saying for years

Gorgev/Shutterstock The landmark Misogyny in Music report from British MPs on the women and equalities committee, published on January 30, shines an unsettling light upon the gender discrimination, sexual harassment and abuse which is rampant across the music industry. The cross-party inquiry heard evidence from a wide range of witnesses connected to the music industry. […]
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Premier League transfer spending has plummeted in January 2024 – an expert explains why belts have been tightened
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Premier League transfer spending has plummeted in January 2024 – an expert explains why belts have been tightened

Premier League transfer windows can be a noisy affair, with vast amounts of money being thrown around, as deals are made and players bought and sold. The summer of 2023 reached a record spend of £2.36 billion, straight after a high-spending January window before that (£815 million). January 2024, though, has been eerily quiet, closing […]
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Four reforms to stop English councils from going bankrupt
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Four reforms to stop English councils from going bankrupt

England’s councils are in serious financial trouble. Six including Birmingham, Nottingham and Croydon have effectively announced their bankruptcy, in the form of “section 114 notices”, since 2020. Various others, including Somerset and Bradford, have warned in recent months that they might have to do the same. And now a cross-political party committee in parliament is […]
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What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine
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What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine

Wikipedia/ETH-Bibliothek Current debates about gender have become polarised. These divisive arguments tend to focus on narrowly defining “man” or “woman”, rather than considering archetypal underpinnings of the feminine and masculine. For psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung and post-Jungian thinkers, these concepts are crucial to understanding gender and wider cultural dynamics. A Jungian perspective considers the […]
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