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Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King Racial divisions define American politics. Decades of declining prejudice centred on racial threats and coyness [...]

William Kerr Recently I took the time to read Tom Nairn’s 1977 essay ‘Twilight of the British State’. Doing so, the [...]

 Sherif Youssef Libra – a new digital currency created by Facebook – has garnered significant political and media attention in the last [...]

Gordon Pearson Right now, even without the relearning experience of the coronavirus pandemic, humanity would not be in a good place [...]

Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, Aspa Chalkidou, Alice Corble and Marina Apgar What is the role of social scientists (broadly defined) in [...]

Graham Crow A successful career can take many forms, and there are always lessons to be learned through studying people’s achievements. [...]

Eva Soares Moura Sport, and particularly football, is a context in which specific ‘masculine’ attributes are valued and reproduced, but in [...]

Amongst the chronic conditions that threaten the independence or successful ageing, dementia is positioned as one of the most significant [...]

Emma Craddock The perennial cornflower is a violet rhizomatous plant with thistle-like flower-heads. Despite its delicate appearance, the flower is enduring, [...]