Are freight pipelines a pipe dream? A critical review of the UK and European perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obiajulu N. Egbunike ◽  
Andrew T. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Pipe Dream ◽  
The Uk

Reviewing Policies after the English Riots

2012 ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Richard Ennals
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Ageing Workforce ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

At a time of change and disorder, this article argues that the whole range of government policies need to be reviewed, and reconceptualised in terms of generations and relations between generations. This article concentrates on the UK, from a European perspective, and with particular reference to the Scandinavian Model. In the context of crisis, new initiatives are required, taking account of transitions during the life course, relations between generations, and sustainability. The perspective of the Ageing Workforce casts light across the spectrum of policy areas. It is a moving picture, not a snapshot.

scholarly journals Public health research in the UK: a report with a European perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. McCarthy ◽  
M. Dyakova ◽  
A. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Localism and the environment: A critical review of UK Government localism strategy 2010–2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Eagle ◽  
Aled Jones ◽  
Alison Greig
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Central Government ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Economic Innovation ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

From 2010 to 2015, the UK coalition government sought to reduce the influence of central government and follow a strategy of localism. Devolution, bringing people closer to democratic process and strengthening communities, became a key point of emphasis. The belief was that localism and devolution would empower socially, help instigate economic innovation and lead to the establishment of greener, more environmentally conscious behaviour. The findings of this paper challenge this rationale. Through an analysis of community energy policy, this paper highlights how the strategy of localism that emerged during the coalition government’s tenure, did not allow pro-environmental schemes, such as community energy, to flourish. The significant scaling back of state funding and structure, which became a feature of the coalition government’s approach to localism, restricts the ability and desire for communities to positively affect their surroundings. It is the recommendation of this paper that future governments should look to emerging ‘eco-localism’ literature, and establish a model of localism that moves away from existing neoliberal perspectives of governance.

Public and Elite Perceptions of Supranational Courts: The European Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-94
Author(s):  
Åse B. Grødeland
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Case Law ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Uk

This article investigates the perceptions of legal insiders (i.e., those working professionally with law) and legal outsiders (i.e., those affected by law) of European supranational courts in general, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in particular. Drawing on largescale qualitative and quantitative data collected in Norway, UK, Poland, Bulgaria and Ukraine, the article shows that support for such courts is widespread across Europe—though less so in the UK than elsewhere. Support is predominantly ‘informed’ by practical considerations of usefulness rather than by ideology. Our data suggest that national legal cultures are highly responsive to ECtHR case law as a legal transfer. This, in turn, has implications for the debate on the legitimacy of the ECtHR and, thus, also for its future.

scholarly journals On the Activity of Sisters of Divine Providence in Cambodia. Book review: Marie-Madeleine Kenning “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia – a memoir.” Croydon, 2020. 209 р.

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-292
Author(s):  
Nadezhda N. Bektimirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Uk

The article is a critical review of Marie-Madeleine Kenning’s book “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia a memoir” published in the UK in 2020. The author of the review identifies the most interesting aspects of the book’s content, such as descriptions of the activity of Sisters of Divine Providence, the everyday lives of local Catholics and their interactions with the Buddhist community.

scholarly journals Open Options Education and Children’s Religious Upbringing: A Critical Review of Current Discussions Taking Place in the UK Parliament

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Hill
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Potential Bias ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Ensuring open minds and open options education has recently been suggested by the UK House of Lords as a State role that can and should override parents’ decisions in relation to their children’s religious upbringing and education. Yet the language used in their Lordship’s debates risks failing to respect the nature and purpose of legally enshrined parental rights in this area and of being perceived as potential bias that rests on a set of assumptions difficult to adequately determine. Through reference to various writings and case law on the interplay between parents’ rights relating to religious upbringing and the State’s obligations to education, along with an in-depth analysis of the notion of indoctrination, this article critiques their Lordships’ discussions over this complex and highly charged issue by highlighting some of the problems confronting their discussions.

scholarly journals A critical review of thyroidectomy consent in the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
C. McIntyre ◽  
N. Tolley
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Ethnic/Racial Terminology as a Form of Representation: A Critical Review of the Lexicon of Collective and Specific Terms in Use in Britain

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Aspinall
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Mutual Entailment ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Ethnic Minority Populations ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Opening Up

All ethnic/racial terminology may be seen as a form of representation, whereby meanings are generated by a range of social categorizers in settings of popular culture, political discourse, and statistical governmentality. This paper investigates these representations through a critical review of the lexicon of collective and specific ethnic/racial terms in use in Britain. Relevant studies and documents were identified through structured searches on databases of peer-reviewed literature and the websites of government census agencies. The full-text corpus of the UK Parliament was used to delineate the genealogies or etymologies of this terminology. The derivation of specific ethnic/racial terms through census processes tends to conform with the theoretical model of mutual entailment of social categories and group identities. This relationship breaks down in the case of the broad and somewhat abstract categories of race/ethnicity originating in the modern bureaucratic processes of government and advocacy by anti-racist organizations, opening up a space for representations that are characterized by their exteriority. Commonly used acronyms are little understood in the wider society, are confusing, and of limited acceptability to those they describe, while other collective terms are offensive and ethnocentric. Accurate description is recommended to delineate ethnic minority populations in terms of their constituent groups.

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