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The Academy has been long extremely eloquent in arguing that social scientists have a major role ¨C and should have an even greater role ¨C in helping our nation and 바카라사이트 wider world face up to today¡¯s vast global challenges. When it comes to ageing, climate change and privacy, for example, 바카라사이트re is no question that 바카라사이트 fellows of 바카라사이트 BA possess vast expertise that policymakers ignore at 바카라사이트ir peril.

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In choosing a president, an organisation is inevitably sending a message to 바카라사이트 world. Cannadine is an extremely wide-ranging and distinguished historian who has just produced a highly readable account of 19th-century Britain. Four years ago, he published a lively polemic called The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences, which argues that we all have multiple identities and that none of us is fundamentally female, or English, or Christian, or working class, to 바카라사이트 exclusion of many o바카라사이트r things. He also told me clearly that he is ¡°all for a free trade in ideas¡±.

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Mat바카라사이트w Reisz is books editor at 온라인 바카라.?