Filomin Gutierrez The first anniversary of Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippine Presidency was on the 30th of June, as his controversial war on [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Segregation is a choice, not an accident
Miro Griffiths The prospect of ensuring disabled people have the right level of support in order to participate in the education [...]
Read morePolicy and Politics: Revitalising minority languages in a period of social transformation
Huw Lewis and Elin Royles The Policy and Politics section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section [...]
Read moreON THE FRONTLINE: Challenging Secrecy in the NHS through Research
Mike Sheaff As the government pushed ahead with its NHS changes during 2011, I was asking questions about an NHS contract [...]
Read moreFrom Hammersmith to Newham: Austerity, local authority debt & financial markets
Sebastian Möller When I recently went to a seminar on local council borrowing in London, the horrific Grenfell Tower fire [...]
Read moreThe 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 [...]
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