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Ann Oakley As we celebrate the centenary of British women’s (limited) admission to the franchise, it is easy to lose sight [...]

Fiona de Londras and Máiréad Enright Throughout the life of the Irish state it has been a criminal offence to access [...]

Arne L Kalleberg and Steven Vallas Profound changes in work have had deep impacts on workers and their families throughout the [...]

Stephen Ashe In recent years, Business in the Community (BITC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have commissioned two of the [...]

David Beer The stories about Cambridge Analytica and the use of Facebook data have been sweeping across the media over recent [...]

Christian Garland The title of this article takes the words of Alexander Nix, co-founder and CEO of ‘political consultancy’ Cambridge [...]

Hamish Robertson, Joanne Travaglia and Nick Nicholas Current attitudes towards ‘big data’ are quite mixed including positive, negative and various kinds [...]

Saskia Papadakis In October 2017, David Lammy MP accused Oxford and Cambridge, England’s oldest and most prestigious universities, of ‘social apartheid’. [...]

Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley During a recent Guardian newspaper podcast on the idea of a universal basic income, one of [...]

Graham Taylor In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum Teresa May, tried to calm the concerns of anxious Leave supporters [...]