Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Lifestyle & Society

TalkingAlcohol.com
SAB Miller alcohol information website
SABMiller

Raising Malawi website

watching, wanting and wellbeing: exploring the links
a study of 9 to 13-year-olds
Agnes Nairn & Jo Ormrod, National Consumer Council

Bullied at work? Don't suffer in silence
TUC booklet on bullying, rights and redress.
Trades Union Congress, Trades Union Congress

Social work and social justice: a manifesto for a new engaged practice
Social Work Manifesto: we need to find more effective ways of resisting the dominant trends within social work and map ways forward for a new engaged practice.
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool,

Britain's caring consumers
Consumption in private and public life is a central concern in 2007, stretching from public services reform and the rise of ethical consumerism to debates about sustainability
Professor Frank Trentmann, Britain Today, 2007,

U TXTng 2 me? Young people, mobiles and social networking
spiked/o2 online debate
spiked, September 2006 - November 2006

On the Shortness of Life
'The life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it.'
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Loeb Classical Library, 1932


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"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University