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Hilary Rose and Steven Rose In 2008, on the very cusp of the banking crash, the Labour government published a Foresight [...]

David Wastell and Sue White The newly burgeoning field of epigenetics examines mechanisms which modify gene expression, mediating the interaction of [...]

Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies and Nicola Horsley Families have long been regarded as signalling and determining the state of nation, so [...]

Tim Davies Consider this scenario. You are involved, by choice or through force of circumstance – or, more likely, because of [...]

Steve Garner and Somia Bibi Skin-lightening is a multibillion dollar industry that reinforces racialized inequality for profit. Beginning with a British [...]

Annelies Goger and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura When Beyoncé and U.K. fast fashion retailer Topshop made a decision to source her new [...]

Daniel Smith ‘A spectre is haunting Britain – the spectre of gentry.’ We are all denying its existence in our holy [...]

David Mitchell, Ian Somerville and Owen Hargie The European football championships finish this month – and what will we have learned? [...]

Maya Blake Boland, Allysa Gatinao, Chloe Hernandez, Daniel Marsh, Crystal Nicholson, Ana Paixao Pancada, Odette Schwarz, Samuel Trimm, Ceyda Vasif, [...]