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Too much 'show' at the degree shows? - Creative Review

As degree show season comes to an end for another year, Hannah Ellis asks whether it's time to rethink a concept that favours the spectacular over the thoughtful and fails to accommodate many aspects of design practice

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Pretentious, millennial-hating arts job listing gets trashed

The Tea House Theatre are ‘not impressed’ with their applicants so far!

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How economics became a religion | John Rapley

The long read: Its moral code promises salvation, its high priests uphold their orthodoxy. But perhaps too many of its doctrines are taken on faith

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Naomi Klein on Trump, neoliberalism and why the left has failed – books podcast

The activist and author speaks to Gary Younge about her book No is Not Enough, and the importance of finding a way to push back against the shock politics of the Trump administration

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High living, low sales: Shard apartments still empty, five years on

Luxury flats with a price tag of up to £50m were touted as an easy sell – yet have failed to shift as the London market slows

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EU states start to examine whether UK is likely to reverse Brexit

Ambassadors review likelihood of reversal despite many concluding no foreseeable scenario exists to allow for such a move

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Low wages are 'return to pre-industrial Britain', says Bank of England economist

Andy Haldane says rise in self-employment and drop in union membership mirrors weak workforces of pre-1750 era

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Nick Clegg says threat of wealthy Brexit elite and populism damages UK

Politician says brew of rightwing EU bashers playing on voter insecurity and cuts fanning populist ideas is pushing Britain to margins

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I was the police officer who proposed at Pride – the hatred floored me | Phil Adlem

To millions, I’m the policeman who popped the question at last year’s parade in London. But to many more I’m an abomination – and that’s why Pride is still vital• Phil Adlem is a volunteer speaker for an LGBT charity, former frontline worker with homeless youth and police officer in the Metropolitan police

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What is on offer for EU nationals after Brexit: the key points

The government has laid out what EU citizens living in Britain can expect after the UK leaves the European Union

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I’ve always loved living in cities – but you have to tell yourself lies to get by

The haves might live alongside the have-nots, but they are socially segregated – let’s not pretend otherwise

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Rehousing of Grenfell Tower families in luxury block receives mixed response

While some residents welcome the families to Kensington Row others are less positive with concerns over future property prices

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Do You Have To Be Rich To Be an Artist? | artnet News

Ben Davis looks into whether a wealthy background is the connecting tissue beneath the apparent diversity in the art world.

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English universities to be ranked gold, silver and bronze

Ratings form part of government’s teaching excellence framework and will come into force from the middle of next year

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Universities face looming strikes as market revolution bites

Former polytechnics and colleges struggle to survive, with disadvantaged students hit hardest by campus closures and job cuts

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Galleries Against Gaslighting: how can the UK art world repsond to Grenfell?

[image] The increased visibility of various forms of discrimination, populism, nationalism, state sanctioned cruelty and bureaucratic indifference, as practiced by world leaders including, but not limited to, Theresa May, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Rodrigo Duterte, has led to an attitudinal shift in the art world. Politics, hitherto confined to the relative hinterland of socially engaged art, has now become difficult to ignore. That is to say, the matter of where power is veste...

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Revealed: the Romanian site where Louis Vuitton makes its Italian shoes

All but the soles of the luxury brand’s footwear are made in Transylvania before being ‘finished’ in Italy and France