Andy Jolly Following campaigning from civil society organisations, including NELMA and Hackney Migrant Centre, the UK government has agreed to extend [...]
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The Impact of Remote Teaching During Lockdown on BAME University Students
Evelyn Corrado The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has exposed inequalities in our societies. As we reflect on how to move forward, [...]
Read moreArchaeological fieldwork notes re species extinction: ‘The Economy’ and ‘Earth’ in the capitalist age
Craig Berry This week’s focus of my archaeological research has been a review of the religious beliefs of the species in [...]
Read moreFang-Fang’s diaries: an ethics of death in the time of COVID-19
Ai Yu Aeschylus, writer of ancient Greek tragedies, once wrote: “here is nothing certain in a man’s life except this, that [...]
Read moreEngineering Your Judiciary, or How the COVID Crisis Won’t Go to Waste
Radu Andrei Pârvulescu COVID-19 has already been used as a pretext for political manoeuvres, and we should expect more. An important [...]
Read moreHigher Education after Covid-19
John Holmwood The shift from the direct public funding of higher education to fee-based funding supported by student loans was supposed [...]
Read moreCOVID in Rio: between prudent favelas and a genocide Republic
Marcelo Carvalho Loureiro Brazil as a nation-state encompasses diverse and opposed socio-economic realities which co-exist in neighbouring territories, but do not [...]
Read moreImagining a new world – the lost futures of Asia after Empire
Laurence Cox In the midst of the virus, locked away in separate houses, our computer screens are filled with visions of [...]
Read moreCovid-19 UK: Responding to the needs of asylum seekers in challenging and dangerous times
Robin Finlay, Matthew C Benwell and Peter Hopkins Over recent weeks and months, the complexity of the Covid-19 crisis has become [...]
Read moreA Violent Disregard for Life: Covid-19 in Brazil
Angelo Martins Junior It has been almost a month since the governor of São Paulo decreed a state of emergency and [...]
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