Times
Tragedy is all the more shocking after lessons of Victoria Climbie
But Eileen Munro, an expert on child protection from the London School of Economics, said that it was highly unusual for neglect to end in death. ‘Neglect is far more commonly associated with long-term, slow, insidious harm that produces an adult with a great many problems functioning in life,’ she said. “’t is not like physical or sexual abuse, which have dramatic incidents triggering a response. It is more of a slow deterioration.’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3987838.ece

Guardian
A new cold war? We're yet to adjust to the old one ending
The EU's 10-year Partnership and Co-operation Agreement with Russia expired last year, and efforts to renew it have run into serious problems. Another reason is that Russia wants a new partnership agreement to have a very different tone. It felt the last one's language about Russia and the EU sharing ‘common European values’ was used as a stick. As Professor Margot Light of the London School of Economics puts it: ‘Russian officials believe these values are determined exclusively in the EU and are simply proclaimed by EU officials for Russia to adopt.’ Now Russia prefers the concept of sharing interests.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/23/eu.russia

The Star
Letters – Think carefully on future of Sheffield
Letter to the editor which refers to an LSE study of seven major European cities, including Sheffield, published last week.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/letters/Think-carefully-on-future-of.4110037.jp
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives
/2008/phoenixcities.htm (research)

Late-edition headlines

Londra Gazette
Universities criticise A-level choices
The London School of Economics advises students against applying with more than one which also has a list of 14 ‘non ideal’ subjects.
http://www.londragazete.com/haber_detay.asp?haberID=1056

New Statesman
Wanted: new-thinking pioneers
Hugely influential was the New Statesman contributor Professor Anthony Giddens of the London School of Economics, whose 1994 book Beyond Left and Right is often seen as the founding text of the Third Way. Although Giddens never worked for the government, his thinking influenced those formulating New Labour policy.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200805220010

Open Democracy (21 May)
Kosovo to Kashmir: the self-determination dilemma
The debate over Kosovo has highlighted deep divisions in the international system on the issue of self-determination of peoples. Solutions to self-determination disputes lie in compromises that embody a mix of realpolitik and principle, says Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at LSE.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/kosovo-to-kashmir-autonomy-secession
-and-democracy?1

Forbes
Soros: Europe Is Not Safe
Tumbling home prices, flagging consumer sentiment, banking jitters and inflationary pressures--the British economy has it all, and billionaire investor George Soros believes it's a recipe for recession. While discussing his latest book at the London School of Economics, where Soros studied under Karl Popper, the Hungarian-born billionaire said Wednesday that Britain faced more or less the same problems as the United States.
http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2008/05/21/soros-credit-crisis-markets-face-cx_ll_0521autofacescan04.html

Personnel Today (20 May)
Royal Mail health initiatives save £227m in three years
Royal Mail saved £227m in three years by providing health screening and physiotherapy for its employees. If other organisations followed suit it could save the UK as much as £1.5bn a year, a study by the London School of Economics (LSE) has suggested.
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/05/20/45977/royal-mail-health
-initiatives-save-227m-in-three-years.html

LSE people on TV/radio

BBC Radio 4 (22 May)
Today Programme
A man and woman have been charged with neglect after the death of Khyra Ishaq in Handsworth. Dr Eileen Munro, reader in social policy at LSE, comments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ (8.10am)

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