LSE in print
'Slave' who fell into clutches of sect is daughter of wartime codebreaker
The Times, 27/11/2013, p.7, David Brown; John Simpson; Danielle Sheridan
Another of the convicted women was Sian Davies, who joined the sect while studying at the London School of Economics. She had been jailed three times in 1977 after assaulting police during the sect's activities. She died aged 44 in 1997.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3933035.ece|
Reports identify three alleged slavery victims
The Guardian, 27/11/2013, p.13, Peter Walker; Josh Halliday
Sian Davies, a former student at the London School of Economics, fell from the second-storey window on Christmas Eve in 1996 and died in hospital in August the next year, aged 44.
Fall at 'slavery' couple's home Mystery of death
Evening Standard, 26/11/2013, p.4, Kiran Randhawa; Justin Davenport
Sian Davies had "virtually disappeared" after becoming involved with an extremist Left-wing sect while studying at the London School of Economics in the Seventies. In 1996, the 44-year-old got in touch with her family for the first time in a decade.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-slaves-case-mystery-of-sian-davies-christmas-eve-death-fall-at-suspect-couples-home-8964340.html|
Not all extremists are mad -1 should know
The Daily Telegraph, 27/11/2013, p.27, Brendan O'neill
Dr Suzanne Newcombe, a cult expert at the London School of Economics, says the case - if proved - would confirm that "ideological beliefs of any sort can have an incredibly powerful effect on how people behave".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10476181/Slavery-case-Not-all-political-extremists-are-mad-and-I-should-know.html|
Winter deaths rise blamed on fuel prices
The Guardian, 27/11/2013, p.4, Patrick Butler; Jennifer Rankin
A 2011 World Health Organisation report estimates that about 30% of excess winter death are directly related to cold housing. A separate report by Professor John Hills of the London School of Economics argued that cutting fuel poverty would lead to fewer winter deaths and reduced costs for the NHS. The director of Age UK, Caroline Abrahams, said…
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/26/winter-deaths-rose-third|
Hollywood film producer admits he spied for Israel
The Guardian, 27/11/2013, p.19, Harriet Sherwood
Milchan, who has a degree from the London School of Economics, was estimated earlier this year to have a net worth of $4.2bn (£2.6bn). Peres, who has been Israel's president since 2007 and was the architect of…
HS2 boost will be even greater, says KPMG
The Guardian, 27/11/2013, p.29, Gwyn Topham
At a recent Treasury select committee hearing, MPs were told by Henry Overman, an academic at the London School of Economics and former DfT adviser, that KPMG's methodology overstated the results by six to eight times. KPMG, which charged £247,000 for its first report, will produce…
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/11/kpmg-hs2-mps-forecast-report|
H.I.V wasn't self-inflicted, but health agency's error was
International New York Times, 27/11/2013, p.1, Danny Hakim
A spokeswoman for the Institute of Health Equity said Monday that the claim came from a Lancet study produced by researchers from the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/world/europe/greece-hiv-claim-an-error.html
?_r=0|
Wind farm axed with investors in state of flux
Financial Times, 27/11/2013, p.3, Guy Chazan; Elizabeth Rigby
"Actions or rhetoric that create risk and instability will make decarbonisation a more distant goal," he will say in a speech on energy and climate change at the London School of Economics.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08fc5494-5686-11e3-ab12-00144feabdc0.html|
The Maoist guru and his middle class 'slave girls'
Daily Mail, 27/11/2013, p.7, Rebecca Camber; Rebecca Evans; Ryan Kisiel; Nick
She graduated in law at Aberystwyth University and was studying for a master’s degree at the London School of Economics when she became mesmerised by 'Comrade Bala' and his group - the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought. The talented cricketer, who once played at Lords…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513964/Pictured-time-Communist-sect-
leader-accused-keeping-women-slaves-30-years.html|
The role of families in social care
The Guardian, 27/11/2013, p.40, Richard Vize
Walsall council John Ransford Former chief executive, Local Government Association; adviser to CapacityGRID Jose-Luis Fernandez Principal research fellow, Personal Social Services Research Unit PSSRU) - LSE Roger Harris Director, adults health and commissioning, Thurrock Council Lloyd Clark Managing director, CapacityGRID Mary McKenna Co-founder and Director, Learning Pool, and SCIE board member…
http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2013/nov/27/role-families-
social-care|
LSE online
Why south London's 'slave' house is nothing of the sort | Frank Furedi
guardian.co.uk (Web), 26/11/2013, Frank Furedi
So-called "cult experts" were quoted as saying that political ideologies, like religious ones, can brainwash their adherents. Dr Suzanne Newcombe, a research officer at Inform, an organisation based at the London School of Economics that specialises in cults and new religious movements, said she was "not surprised by the suggestion that the 30-year incarceration may have its roots in…
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/26/south-london-slave-
house-slavery-hysteria|
House prices: The cost of conservation
The Economist (Web), 26/11/2013,
New analysis by the London School of Economics complicates the widespread view that such homes cost more than others simply because of their aesthetic appeal. Researchers have used property transaction data to compare neighbourhoods…
http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/11/house-prices#comments|
How to write a personal statement for business studies
guardian.co.uk (Web), 26/11/2013, Anna Codrearado
Intellectual curiosity and a strong work ethic are the core skills the London School of Economics (LSE) are looking for on their management programme. Will Breare-Hall, student recruitment and study abroad manager, says the LSE is looking for "the abilities to think…
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/26/writing-a-business-studies-personal-statement|
Doing it for the kids: foreign parents snap up London properties
Reuters - Freya Berry - Nov 26 at 21:05 GMT
access to London’s prize institutions including University College London and the London School of Economics. And when the college kids graduate and start work, a convenient apartment may...
http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2013/11/26/doing-it-for-the-kids-foreign-
parents-snap-up-london-properties/|
Recession-Watchers Dump Yield Curve for 1970s Indicator: Cutting Research
Bloomberg - Simon Kennedy - Nov 27 at 0:33 GMT
Anja K. Leist of the University of Luxembourg, Philipp Hessel of the London School of Economics and Mauricio Avendano of Harvard School of Public Health. To contact the reporter on this story
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-27/slump-watchers-dump-yield-curve-
for-1970s-tool-cutting-research.html|
John F. Kennedy: The facts and the myths
Nigeria Daily Independent - daily Editor - Nov 27 at 1:36 GMT
the U.K. during the Second World War. After studies at the London School of Economics and Princeton, Kennedy graduated in 1940 from Harvard, where he majored in political science and international...
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/11/john-f-kennedy-facts-myths/|
What -- us tired? Elderly say they're less exhausted than teens
Chicago Tribune - Emily Alpert Reyes - Nov 27 at 0:19 GMT
people as weak and tired, said Laura Kudrna, a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. What’s even more surprising, she said, is that the unexpected results cant be...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-sci-sn-elderly-less-tired-teens-20131126,0,873899.story|
The tyranny of parochialismIn December 2010, an article in the Australian press drew?
Jakarta Post - Thu, January 01 1970, 7:00 AM - Nov 27 at 4:25 GMT
porn star and has ethics to match”. Marty, a graduate of the London School of Economics and Cambridge with a doctorate from The Australian National University, was probably being generous when...
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/11/27/the-tyranny-parochialism.html|
Social media is damaging boomers’ workplace productivity, while Gen Y blame bullying
Smart Company Australia - Dan Moss - Nov 27 at 4:20 GMT
how to use workplace technology. Prior research by Stanford University and the London School of Economics shows the education level of management and staff can also make a difference to how...
http://www.smartcompany.com.au/people/human-resources/34722-social-media
-is-damaging-boomers-workplace-productivity-while-gen-y-blame-bullying.html|
Environment Agency staff cuts risk economy and reputation
Ecologist - Veerle Heyvaert - Nov 26 at 13:00 GMT
Veerle Heyvaert is a Reader in Law at the London School of Economics. She does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation...
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2174397/
environment_agency_staff_cuts_risk_economy_and_reputation.html|
La croissance verte à l'heure des comptes
Les Echos - Nov 27 at 0:28 GMT
restent néanmoins contestés par des économistes comme Michael Jacobs, professeur à la London School of Economics, pour qui la grande majorité des publications scientifiques démontrent l'effet...
http://www.lesechos.fr/entreprises-secteurs/energie-environnement/actu/0203147162133-la-croissance-verte-a-l-heure-des-comptes-632697.php|
Retos de seguridad en América Latina debatidos en foro en Bogotá
El Pais Colombia - Nuevos Medios El Pais S.A - Nov 27 at 6:25 GMT
porosas, por donde penetran los nuevos delitos transnacionales. Óscar Melo, de la London School of Economics, habló de la “transnacionalidad” del fenómeno social, de las “sociedades Facebook...
http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/judicial/noticias/retos-seguridad-america-latina-debatidos-foro-bogota|
Delphine o Antoine? La saga de los Arnault se prepara para la sucesión
Modaes - Modaes.es - Nov 27 at 5:04 GMT
que estudió en la escuela de negocios francesa Edhec y en la London School of Economics, trabajó en la consultora McKinsey. Ahora, y tras ser nombrada para el mismo puesto en Louis Vuitton...
http://www.modaes.es/back-stage/20131127/delphine-o-antoine-la-saga-de-los-arnault-se-prepara-para-la-sucesion.html|
"Este proceso no es por dinero"
InfoBalear - JUAN MORILLAS Especial para EL MUNDO Edimburgo - Nov 27 at 4:38 GMT
fin la separación de los británicos José Vicente Rodríguez Mora en la London School of Economics, Londres JULIETTE BEHR JUAN MORILLAS Especial para EL MUNDO Edimburgo Actualizado: 26/11/2013...
http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2013/11/26/5294ee9a63fd3d8d458b45
93.html|
La seducción del camarada Bala apartó a las 'esclavas' de Londres de sus familias
Hoy Digital - Nov 27 at 2:55 GMT
una cuarta víctima. Se trataría de Sian Davies, una exestudiante de la London School of Economics, que perdió el contacto con sus familiares al ingresar presumiblemente en la secta de Balakrishnan...
http://www.hoy.es/v/20131127/internacional/seduccion-camarada-bala-aparto-20131127.html|
Cotrim de Figueiredo é o novo presidente do Turismo de Portugal
Diario Economico - Nov 27 at 1:41 GMT
Portugal não devia ter ligações ao sector turístico. Formado em Economia pela London School of Economics e com um MBA pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, preenchia outras duas exigências: licenciatura...
http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/cotrim-de-figueiredo-e-o-novo-presidente-do-
turismo-de-portugal_182511.html|
Diabete, prevenzione a colpi di sport
Farmacia.it - Nov 26 at 22:41 GMT
Medical Journal del 1 ottobre 2013, condotto da Huseyin Naci, ricercatore alla London School of Economics and Political Science e alla Harvard University, e da John P. A. Ioannidis, professore...
http://www.farmacia.it/index.php/infosalute/articolo/6/12089|
Βραβείο επιχειρηματικότητας στην εταιρεία Nanobionic
Zougla - Nov 26 at 21:21 GMT
σε νέους κυρίως από την Ελλάδα και την Κύπρο για τα πανεπιστήμια London School of Economics για πτυχίο και Cass City University of London για μεταπτυχιακό. Στον τομέα του περιβάλλοντος, το Ίδρυμα...
http://www.zougla.gr/money/article/vravio-epixirimatikotitas-stin-eteria-nanobionic|
Due milioni di italiani obesi con la glicemia sballata: è la diabesità
Quotidiano Nazionale - Nov 26 at 19:18 GMT
studio pubblicato sul British Medical Journal condotto da Huseyin Naci, ricercatore alla London School of Economics and Political Science e alla Harvard University, e da John P. A. Ioannidis...
http://qn.quotidiano.net/salute/2013/11/26/988084-diabesita_milioni_italiani.shtml|
Escándalos en la Banca Contribuyen a "Clima de Miedo" y Frenan Recuperación en Europa
Estrategia - Nov 26 at 10:05 GMT
CASTELLANOEn entrevista con ESTRATEGIA, el miembro del departamento de leyes en London School of Economics, también analizó el problema de acceso al crédito que afecta al viejo continente. ¿De...
http://www.estrategia.cl/detalle_noticia.php?cod=88472|
Het bankenplan is niet veel meer dan een vijgenblad
De Morgen - Nov 26 at 8:27 GMT
voor de kat, zegt Paul De Grauwe. Hij is professor aan de London School of Economics and Political Science en gewoon hoogleraar emeritus aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2461/Opinie/article/detail/1747072/2013/11/26/
Het-bankenplan-is-niet-veel-meer-dan-een-vijgenblad.dhtml|
Ubs non teme la bolla in Usa e punta su Wall Street
Trend Online - Rossana Prezioso - Nov 26 at 8:04 GMT
vento in poppa nel 2014...o fino a quando? 25 novembre 09:19 London School of Economics: entro 10 anni l'Italia sarà morta 25 novembre 08:00 Rossana Prezioso Dopo la laurea in Lettere...
http://www.trend-online.com/prp/previsoni-bolla-usa-ubs-wall-street/|
LSE on TV/radio
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BBC Radio 5 Live, 26/11/2013
Professor John Carey commenting on Scottish Independence.
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BBC Radio 4, 26/11/2013
Jenny Blakesley argues case for attending university.
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BBC Radio 2, 26/11/2013
Tony Travers commenting on road safety.