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Matthew Leggett

La transparence électorale lors de la campagne du référendum sur le Brexit: une campagne juste et équitable

International audience; Cet article traite du référendum sur l'appartenance du Royau-Uni à l'Union Européenne et des accusations de fraude électorales du référendum

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The Falklands conflict: Media Coverage, Propaganda, Jingoism or Journalism?

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The Abortion Act 1967: A fundamental change?

DOI: 10.1057/9781137374103\₄; International audience; In the 1960s, Great Britain underwent a series of profound changes in both social and cultural terms. For some, these changes were the result of a growth in liberal values and individual freedom, while critics saw this as the rise of a permissiveness which was destroying national values and morals. Politicians’ sexual peccadilloes were now being revealed, while satirical publications and television programmes were daring to challenge and ridicule both politicians and the Establishment, a thing previously unheard of, just not quite the done thing. The ‘Celtic fringe’ was making its voice heard far more, either through civil rights demonst…

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Introduction: Satire in/and politics in/and 2018

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Brexit and war rhetoric, an electoral stategy?

International audience; The English language is replete with bellicose expressions and references to different battles and wars involving British armed forces, in particular World War Two. This point was highlighted recently by the current occupant of 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson, who remarked that "military metaphors are old parliamentary standard practice." 1 Many such terms have entered the everyday lexicon of most Eurosceptics and Brexiteers alike. They had already become common currency in anti-European rhetoric since the 1990s, but have reached a greater level of intensity in the last four years since the Brexit referendum, when these groups or individuals discuss or denounce the …

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