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...The FT has published a series about how society and the economy have changed since....
...In 2012, Obama lost every single county in the state to Mitt Romney....
...And, it may be, the most humane.” Rosario A Iaconis Chairman, The Italic Institute of America Suffolk County Community College, Mineola, NY, US...
...Irish society has been travelling at speed towards a more liberal and progressive future....
...Anton Chekhov, the Russian short story writer to whom Trevor is often compared, believed that an “author must be humane up to his fingers.” Trevor evinced this quality throughout his writing....
...The Thatcher government abandoned council housing and the ideal of the socially balanced, free and mixed society we wanted to create with it.”...
...“People live in better societies when they rent,” says Rees....
...Still others credit the ageing of US society....
...Summer’s Crown: The Story of Cricket’s County Championship, by Stephen Chalke, Fairfield Books, RRP£20 A wonderfully researched, very well written and lovingly produced history of the county championship...
...The great English Tudor antiquarian, William Camden, published his county-by-county chronicle, Britannia, in 1586, covering the entirety of the two kingdoms....
...It centres on the Madigan family and their house, near an unnamed town, on the coastline of County Clare....
...Heaney was born at Mossbawn, County Derry, in 1939, the year when his great predecessor WB Yeats died....
...“Good housing is the sign of a civilised society,” says architect Ian Ritchie....
...“We had 2.3m new registered voters in Los Angeles County and more than 40 per cent were Latino. That’s a sign of things to come for the rest of the country.”...
...Brooklyn By Colm Tóibín Viking £17.99, 256 pages Eilis Lacey leaves behind her quiet life in County Wexford and travels to Brooklyn in search of better opportunities, in Tóibín’s sixth novel....
...This is not the only European country with humane impulses that has got itself into a mess over immigration....
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