language and words in the news
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Posted by Stephen Bullon on May 14, 2012
The Eurozone crisis claimed another victim on 6 May when Nicolas Sarkozy became the eleventh European political leader to lose his job since 2008. His opponent, François Hollande, has become only the second socialist president of the French Fifth Republic. This change of presidency has been seen by some as a “lurch to the left”. [...]
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Posted by Liz Potter on May 11, 2012
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Posted by Liz Potter on May 04, 2012
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Posted by Liz Potter on April 27, 2012
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Posted by Michael Rundell on April 25, 2012
Every Wednesday here in the UK, we are treated to a piece of political theatre known as ‘Prime Minister’s questions’ or PMQs. For half an hour, the Prime Minster is obliged to answer questions from other MPs, and the traditional highlight of this event is a verbal skirmish between the PM and the Leader of [...]
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Posted by Liz Potter on April 20, 2012
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Posted by Liz Potter on April 20, 2012
2012 is turning out to be quite a year for anniversaries, with those of the birth of Charles Dickens and the sinking of the Titanic already past, and Robert Browning and Alan Turing still to come. Today is the centenary of the death of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, author of one of the most [...]
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Posted by Liz Potter on April 13, 2012
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Posted by Liz Potter on April 06, 2012
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Posted by Liz Potter on March 30, 2012
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