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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,
Secularisation depends just as much on the erosion of the family as the withering of belief
Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review, June/July 2006,
The musical education strategy for the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills
A sound designed to be heard but not listened to is everywhere mediating our relationship with the world
Mike Brown, EST, Issue Four, Summer 1993
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spiked/o2 online debate
spiked, September 2006 - November 2006
S. Anglo, New York, 1969
The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.
Herbert Marcuse, Beacon Press, 1965
Multinationals: curse or blessing for the developing world?
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