According to “European Democracies”, the New Radical Right (NRR) is a new party family characterized by anti-establishment and anti-immigrant rhetoric (Crepaz & Steiner 33). The authors maintain that the NRR is similar to Europe’s 20th century fascist parties in that they adopt similar extreme nationalist rhetoric, making them neofacist parties. By rejecting EU integration, immigration, and globalisation, these parties reject “…everything that [is] alien to the nation.” (Crepaz & Steiner 33) In…
referendums to guide government) giving the people more say therefore more democratic, however I agree with Schumpeter that only expert politicians should make big decisions therefore undermining underpinning featured of populism. For example, the Brexit vote has huge constitutional…
William Davies, author of "The Age of Post-Truth Politics", writes in the public discourse on account of the current sociopolitical ambiance for the general populace. The intention of this piece is to discuss the trend once again breaking out of spinning the truth to create advantages on behalf of the proponent or disadvantage for the opponent. It is a professional piece critiquing, specifically, political parties for their twisting of the truth instead of relying on data to convince the…
United Kingdom government lau There is a high level of uncertainty in in the construction industry in the United Kingdom, and specially investment in construction and infrastructure from the private and public sector. We can see a decreasing trend in the business confidence level (see Figure 4). Social Uncertainty for the continuity that the United Kingdom government support several schemes to help English to buy their houses such as equity loans, mortgage guarantee, newbuy, shared ownership5…
Journal 2 International Problems ISIS/ Terrorism Foreign policy Brexit poverty National Problems gun laws police brutality/racism 2016 Election Domestic violence large college debts Security unemployment Local problems Homeless Sovereignty public schools/ bad education drug abuse TNT Personal problems living on my own/living with roommates finding a job picking a major money No nurse aid on campus 1.The first time I noticed there was no nurse aid on campus was when my roommate had an infection…
year had to follow the same style but the topics were totally up to us as long as it started out with an average, everyday occurrence. My essay, for example, started with my having to pick a fantasy Premier League team then, eventually, discussed Brexit and its implications on the international stage, both political and soccer. Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, featured in my second essay of the portfolio, takes an interesting position with the perspective of the narrator as a minor character. The…
Risks Internal In evaluating Nordstrom with regard to a brick-and-mortar expansion of five stores and one fulfillment center in the United Kingdom, requiring approximately $700 million in external funding, various internal risks were identified. The first being Nordstrom’s financial leverage as it stands today, prior to accumulating additional debt with the expansion to acquire new assets. Since 2014, Nordstrom’s financial leverage has grown exponentially, from 3.79 to 8.84, 9.03, and 8.30, in…
Apr. 2017]. Hall, C. (2016, September 26). The racist ideas of slave owners are still with us today | Catherine Hall. Retrieved April 02, 2017, from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/26/racist-ideas-slavery-slave-owners-hate-crime-brexit-vote Lott, T. L., & Pittman, J. P. (2006). A Companion to African-American philosophy. Malden: Blackwell. McIntosh, P. White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Independent School, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Winter 1990), pp. 31-35. Rattan, R.,…
with one another, their ability to specialize increased and the production of the world economy continues to grow. This type of economic specialization can cause some xenophobia within nations as they look to maintain their job growth, as seen in the Brexit event recently. However, these problems are minuscule compared to the production that results from specialization. Without economic globalization, the access of virtually the whole world to a product like the iPhone would not exist.…
India and the UK Two very powerful countries, but there was a time when the British empire used to rule over India (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). In those decades the UK learnt somethings from India, and India learnt a few things from the UK, while somethings will never change. So in this text I will reflect, compare and share my opinions on the differences and similarities between India and the UK. One huge similarity is the language English. English is growing rapidly all around the…