Danny Dorling Britain is a highly segregated society. It boasts the widest Gini coefficient of all the OECD countries in Europe [...]
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Viewpoints on topics in the news.
Viewpoint: Understanding Anti-transgender Feminism
Lisa Kalayji In an unprecedented turn, the UK Labour Party recently announced that it would extend access to its all-women candidacy [...]
Read moreViewpoint: The political theory of enlightened isolationism, or, in muted praise of Jeremy Corbyn
Charles Turner Many on the right of the Tory party fear that Jeremy Corbyn may be about to slip into Number [...]
Read moreViewpoint: Sociology of mortality – existential or pragmatic?
Tony Walter As the American sociologist Peter Berger (1969) once wrote, every human society comprises people ‘banded together in the face [...]
Read moreViewpoint: Good-bye to all That
Andreas Hess Allegedly Mussolini made Italian trains run on time. It’s not hard to see some parallels here with the Brexiteers’ [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Looking Back at the Vietnam War, the Burns/Novick documentary
Veterans for Peace Full Disclosure Campaign The documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick has just completed its [...]
Read moreViewpoint: Neither about Britishness, nor about Citizenship – The Life in the UK Test
Ipek Demir Since its launch in 2005, those who need to apply for British citizenship or settlement in the UK [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Africa’s Colonial Vestige, the CFA Franc
Nicoletta Fagiolo On 19 August 2017, Kemi Seba, a Franco-Beninese Pan-Africanist activist living in Senegal since 2011 and leader of the [...]
Read moreViewpoint: End Statelessness or Empower the Stateless?
Katja Swider The biggest problem with contemporary policies on statelessness, including the UNHCR’s campaign to end statelessness by 2024, is the [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: 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 [...]
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