Yunis Alam Motorised transport in general, and everything associated with it, can be couched as inherently problematic: these machines are built [...]
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‘Old, gnarly and 60 metres tall’: Contesting Forestry and Identity in Australia
Tom O’Brien The use and preservation of Australia’s old-growth forests has long been a source of contention between the state and [...]
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What the recent exam fiasco has taught us about why government needs to trust teachers
Jacqueline Baxter 2020 has been an exceptionally difficult year for all sectors of the public services in England, and the education [...]
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Re-imagining the UK’s local industrial strategy after the Coronavirus pandemic
Sherif Youssef In his poem mourning Shelley, Byron said: “Nothing has happened, he has only undergone a sea change”. In a recent [...]
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Missing Voices and New Connections: Online Community Choir Singing during COVID 19
Emily Falconer I click on the ‘join meeting’ button, and I’m met with a screen full of squares. Tiny moving [...]
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Postponing migrant destitution? Why we need to call for more than a suspension of No Recourse to Public Funds
Eve Dickson and Rachel Rosen As the Covid-19 pandemic has generalised insecurity and exacerbated poverty, there have been increased calls for [...]
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The public debates on migrant Channel crossings. Whose voice is legitimate?
Pierre Monforte In summer 2020, questions related to ‘border crossing’ and ‘illegal migration’ are making the headlines in the UK – [...]
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FOCUS: Artistic and Intellectual Hospitality
Yasmin Gunaratnam and Fataneh Farahani As we write in July 2020, our everyday lives have been shaken by the mimetic entwining [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Poetry Against ‘Oh, Canada!’ Racism
Tania Maki Chahal The summer of 2017 was particularly hostile to Indigenous people in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, a settler city [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: “Blood In, Blood Out” – Can Art Change Gangsterism?
Daniel Mpilo Richards If someone had told me when I was 11 years old, that there existed another form of [...]
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