The public discourse on climate change has long centred around hope-based narratives pushed by both the media and mainstream environmentalist agents from Greenpeace WWF to Bill Gates Al Gore.11 Most recently, see for instance 2021. promises of scientific technological advance in particular, they argue, give us reason be hopeful that it is our hands halt incipient catastrophe. We just need roll ...

Bruce Wardhaugh, Competition, Effects and Predictability: Rule of Law the Economic Approach to Oxford: Hart, 2020, 272 pp, hb £70.00 Competition law scholarship tends be preoccupied with questions substance. ‘More’ or ‘less’ intervention? Contentment concern concentrated markets? Which business practices should prohibited? These are key issues significant consequences for enforcement. But subst...

it may be that this disinclination to use technical terms has helped me get a better hold on what seems have been my deepest preoccupation over the years: is do with one’s sense of being alive and inhabiting body, I called body presentation, as against representations or images, inner dark matrix from which emerges drives action thoughts emotional expression new perceivings.11 Marion Milner, ‘1...

The humanities in UK universities are under attack on two fronts. first is economic. A new government orthodoxy has emerged: the New Labour target for increasing participation higher education led to too many young people attending university. Arts and courses at lower-ranking have come scrutiny offering students a poor return their financial investment contributing little economic growth. Curr...

By the end of sixteenth century, English theatre companies were first professionals to play audiences in Germany. On tours, impressive both for their range and duration, they brought a popular repertory from London places Low Countries, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden eastern Baltic region. Skilled arts acting, dancing, singing performing home theatres London, shows on tour would easily outsh...

The Amazon, popularly referred to as the ‘lungs of world’, is largest rainforest and water basin in world. 11 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), ‘Environment Outlook Amazonia – GEO Amazonia’ (UNEP 2008) <http://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/9421/-Environment_Outlook_in_Amazonia_%96_GEO_Amazonia-2009GEO_Amazonia_2009_1.pdf.p...

The two diastereomers of 4-nitro-1,3-diphenylpentan-1-one behave differently in deuterium for hydrogen exchange in DMSO-d6/D2O solutions using various bases as catalyst. Reaction of the erythro diastereomer gives largely the same diastereomer upon D/H exchange (retention), i.e., exchange exceeds epimerization. Pyridine and acetonitrile as solvents lead to faster epimerization than exchange. In ...