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Winter of discontent: the media continuously misses Shakespeare’s original meaning of the phrase

Winter of discontent: the media continuously misses Shakespeare’s original meaning of the phrase: Nurses striking in the winter of 2022 and 2023. PA Images/Alamy From 1978 to 79, public sector workers in the UK engaged in nationally coordinated strike action. The news was full of stories of limited services at hospitals because domestic cleaners were …

‘Please continue’ – did this simple two-word phrase lead normal people to ‘torture’ strangers?

‘Please continue’ – did this simple two-word phrase lead normal people to ‘torture’ strangers?: Participant in Milgram's obedience to authority experiments. Yale University Library Would you electrocute an innocent stranger if you were told to do so by someone in a position of authority? This is the dilemma hundreds of US adults were presented with …