Sue Scott, University of York Discover Society is modeled on the magazine New Society (1962-88) and one of its aims is [...]
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Category "Issue 9"
Viewpoint: UKIP’s Fox in the Henhouse
James Hampshire, University of Sussex For once, the ‘historic’ cliché seems appropriate. Last month, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) won [...]
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On the Frontline. Crude Power in Thailand’s 2014 Coup: Old Soldiers Almost Die
The author is an academic based in Thailand who writes anonymously because of the crackdown on academic freedom. See letter [...]
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Policy Briefing: Care.data and the Future of the NHS
James Wilson, UCL Care.data sounds good on paper. Commissioning of healthcare services will be more efficient and more accurate. Massive new [...]
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Clinical Trails: Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
Ruth Holliday, David Bell, Meredith Jones and Olive Cheung, University of Leeds Waking in what seemed like the middle of the [...]
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“Joining the dots”? The role of research in the ‘troubled families’ agenda
Stephen Crossley, Durham University When Boris Johnson eventually cut short his holiday to return to London to deal with the fallout [...]
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Framing Integration – the new assimilation
Naaz Rashid, University of Manchester As Trevor Phillips writes, ‘few topics inspire more heat and less light than integration’. Many readers [...]
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The Two Iron Ladies of 1984: Remembering the Postcoloniality of Operation Blue Star Thirty Years On
Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London June 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Blue Star, the code name for the [...]
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Mother/ Daughter relationships: Cultural difference and modernity
Stevi Jackson, University of York Over the last two decades there has been considerable sociological debate about the extent to which [...]
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Conscious uncoupling: Reassessing agency and desire in couple relationships
Jenny van Hooff, Manchester Metropolitan University The recent separation of celebrity couple Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin after over a decade [...]
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