In the summer of 1986, without any public warning the Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester, John Stalker, was removed from his duties and sent on indefinate paid leave. There followed a news blackout by the authorities, and journalists began a search for the story which lay behind John Stalker's effective suspension from duty. Inspired rumours from Whitehall, Northern Ireland, and the Manchester underworld all proved to be without foundation, as Stalker and his lawyers mounted a careful press campaign to defend him against the 'rumour mill'. It gradually emerged that his removal from duty coincided with a vital stage in his investigation of the killings, by heavily armed units of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, of six unarmed Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland three and a half years earlier. All sections of the British press pursued the story, and papers of the right, left and centre entertained in their news and editorial columns the notion that John Stalker had been the victim of a cover-up story by the British establishment. David Murphy argues that this case presents a major difficulty for the standard academic analysis of the press in Britain: namely that it supports the status quo because it is part of the dominant class system. He argues that the exclusion of non-official and dissident versions of the events can be explained by more direct causes: the ownership of the press and the routine nature of normal news production, which relies on official and established sources. Where such sources do not produce an account of events, as in the case of the Stalker affair, the overwhelming majority of the press output questioned the legitimacy of state actions, even to the extent of entertaining the notion that its agent had conspired to commit murder and to pervert the course of justice. David Murphy's analysis picks apart the notion of a 'system' controlling production to demonstrate the complex interaction between methods of individual journalists, their sources and the way news is produced.

The Stalker Affair and the Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Murphy, David

Politics & Government

Unwin Hyman

The silent watchdog: The press in local politics (Communication and society)

Business & Money

Skills

Constable

Derivatives Regulation - Rules and Reasoning from Lehman to Covid provides an indepth examination of the changes made to the regulation of derivatives that were enacted following the global financial crisis of 2008, considering the motivations behind these changes and including insights from the Covid pandemic.\nKey areas of derivatives regulatory reform are examined, including bank capital and leverage rules, the clearing mandate, uncleared margin rules, and the principles for the regulation of central counterparties. After providing an overview of the global financial crisis, the motivations for these reforms in its immediate aftermath are considered, as well as the impact of these rules on the financial system, using insights from the market stress around the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020.\nThe book analyses the construction of financial regulation, as well as its nature and how this should be assessed, using tools from the law, economics, and regulatory theory. Global administrative law, cost benefit analysis, and the results of regulatory interventions in other areas throw light on the legitimacy, efficiency, and effectiveness of derivatives regulation. Insights from international political economy are also discussed, situating financial regulation within the regulatory state, while showing how its institutional arrangements shape regulatory outcomes. Suggestions for improving both rules and regulatory processes are considered in the conclusion of the book.

Derivatives Regulation: Rules and Reasoning from Lehman to Covid

Business

Oxford University Press

Urban development cooperation needs innovative solutions. Despite many efforts, international assistance has failed to address the challenges faced by cities in developing countries. This book seeks to raise awareness about the value of corporate social responsibility as a tool in urban development assistance.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Urban Development: Lessons from the South

Werna, E.

Keivani, R.

Business Culture

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have been through with new technology and the proliferation of free newspapers.

What News?: The Market, Politics and the Local Press (Communication and Society)

Franklin, Bob

Industries

Routledge

The envelope was of odd shape, as if it were no longer the size they had been making; the edges brown, musty, smelled of some faint or long ago whiff of perfume, or a mist of fragrance my mother must have worn years before. I moved to break the seal and read out her words to me. The message was not from a bottle, but a message written from the pen of her own spirit."I suppose the time has come for us to part ways. The reading of this letter signifies I am gone from this world, and it is not to my liking that we are separate from one another for a span that I no more can predict or estimate, than I could have ever desired for us. I have the burden Conner that you are in trial now and the world will seem as no sense to you. I often wondered what words would be appropriate at this juncture; what measure or saying that would fit the tragedy you and I now feel so strained with."It is for me, the first moment where I knew the loss of someone I loved, and also to have become that very same loss to my own child "

In Winter's Moment: A Novel based on a true story

Romance

iUniverse

This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines – film studies, African cultural studies, and, in particular, postcolonial studies – in order to combine the in-depth analysis of individual films and bodies of work by individual directors with a sustained interrogation of these films in relation to important theoretical concepts. Structurally, the book is straightforward, though the aim is to incorporate diversity and complexity of approach within the overall simplicity of format. Chapters provide both an overview of the director’s output to date, and the necessary background – personal or national, cultural or political – to enable readers to achieve a better understanding of the director’s choice of subject matter, aesthetic or formal strategies, or ideological stance. They also offer a particular reading of one or more films, in which the authors aim to situate African cinema in relation to important critical and theoretical debates. This book thus constitutes a new departure in African film studies, recognising the maturity of the field, and the need for complex yet accessible approaches to it, which move beyond the purely descriptive while refusing to get bogged down in theoretical jargon. Consequently, the volume should be of interest not only to specialists but also to the general reader.

Postcolonial African cinema: Ten directors

Williams, Patrick

History

Manchester University Press

Thresholds of Otherness / Autrement Memes: Indentity and Alerity in French-language Literatures

Ni Loingsigh, Aedin

Literature & Fiction

Grant & Cutler Ltd.

Online Learning and Teaching with Technology: Case Studies, Experience and Practice (Case Studies of Teaching in Higher Education Series)

This manual provides practical advice on teaching in a wide range of technologies, including the internet and multimedia packages.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

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