Sebastian Möller When I recently went to a seminar on local council borrowing in London, the horrific Grenfell Tower fire [...]
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The Tower
Nando Sigona The burnt skeleton of the Grenfell tower stands empty and silent in the centre of Europe’s busiest city, a [...]
Read more‘Paid work’ or underpaid labour? The labour exploitation of detainees within immigration detention
Katie Bales and Lucy Mayblin In June 2017, ten immigration detainees launched a judicial review action against the Home Office challenging [...]
Read moreAnatomospheres: a ‘respiratory politics’ of buildings and breath
Nik Brown I’m sat with a clinician. She’s a lung infection specialist. We’re talking windows. Whatever clinic I go to, the [...]
Read more“Uncertainty is not favourable to anyone”: Sweden’ and Left Politics
Sara Edenheim In hindsight it is easy to see where the Swedish Social Democrats lost their possibility to mobilize against both [...]
Read moreMay was over in June: The 2017 British General Election
James Hampshire Has there ever been a more topsy-turvy election? On 8 June 2017, the Conservatives won the most seats, the [...]
Read moreLesbian/Queer Masculinities
Finn Mackay Recent surveys and commentary, mainly from the US, but also from here in the UK, suggest that younger generations [...]
Read moreLiving the border: Russian-speaking sex workers in Finland
Anastasia Diatlova and Lena Näre Whenever sex work and border crossings are mentioned together, the spectre of trafficking looms large [...]
Read moreWishing for Better: Thoughts on an election
Jacqui Close On 18th April, Prime Minister Theresa May, made an unscheduled announcement that the UK would go to the polls [...]
Read moreFrom Meat Free Days to Meat Free Diets?
Jo Mylan and Nicklas Neuman World Meat Free Day can be conceptualised as an intervention aimed at raising awareness of [...]
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