Image: Park View School, Birmingham, website Shamim Miah, University of Huddersfield For some, the ‘Trojan Horse’ saga associated with the Birmingham [...]
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Immigration: polarising British society?
Penny Young, NatCen Social Research Unless you’re a hermit, or your head is buried in the sand, you’ll have clocked by [...]
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Operation Trojan Horse: how a hoax problematised Muslims and Islam
Chris Allen, University of Birmingham There was always a distinct possibility that an anonymous letter leaked via the Sunday Telegraph alleging [...]
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Minority Women’s Activism in Tough Times
Leah Bassel, University of Leicester, and Akwugo Emejulu, University of Edinburgh We would like to start by explaining why we are doing [...]
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David Lockwood, 1929-2014
David Rose, University of Essex How is society possible? What is the basis of social order? What are the mechanisms of [...]
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FOCUS: On the Truth in Sex – The Times They Are A-Changin’, Or Not
Sue Scott, University of York Discover Society is modeled on the magazine New Society (1962-88) and one of its aims is [...]
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Viewpoint: UKIP’s Fox in the Henhouse
James Hampshire, University of Sussex For once, the ‘historic’ cliché seems appropriate. Last month, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) won [...]
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On the Frontline. Crude Power in Thailand’s 2014 Coup: Old Soldiers Almost Die
The author is an academic based in Thailand who writes anonymously because of the crackdown on academic freedom. See letter [...]
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Policy Briefing: Care.data and the Future of the NHS
James Wilson, UCL Care.data sounds good on paper. Commissioning of healthcare services will be more efficient and more accurate. Massive new [...]
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Clinical Trails: Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
Ruth Holliday, David Bell, Meredith Jones and Olive Cheung, University of Leeds Waking in what seemed like the middle of the [...]
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