Michael Calnan, Simon J Williams and Jonathan Gabe Much has already been written on trust in the social sciences, and why [...]
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Sophie Harman It couldn’t happen here. A one-off event, at first as big as the 2008 financial crisis, and then equal [...]
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David Clark TS Eliot’s chilling start to The Waste Land has deep resonance in the time of COVID-19. We seem to [...]
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Mike Sheaff As I write this, on Sunday 19th April, the number of Covid-19 patients who died in UK hospitals has [...]
Read moreCOVID19: Expertise, transparency and the problem of trust
Reiner Grundmann In an attempt to control the effects of the epidemic in the UK, the government has embarked on a [...]
Read moreCorona, East and West: Has Western-centrism mitigated against our well-being in the UK?
Ipek Demir It is no longer a secret. The West, on the whole, has underestimated the coronavirus – covid-19. It is [...]
Read moreUK Universities and Covid-19: Time for Cooperation, not Competition
John Holmwood The Government’s policy for higher education in England (and to a lesser extent in the other devolved jurisdictions in [...]
Read more‘Herd immunity and let the old people die’ – Boris Johnson’s callous policy and the idea of genocide
Martin Shaw On 17 March, when the extent of the British government's failure to protect the population from the coronavirus had [...]
Read moreNo such thing as society? Liberal paternalism, politics of expertise, and the Corona crisis
Jana Bacevic In an interview in 1987, Margaret Thatcher famously responded: “There is no such thing as society...there are individual [...]
Read moreComparing twins – cultural capital matters, but how it works could surprise you
Stine Møllegaard Is there anything to win from going to the library, museum, opera - and reading and playing musical [...]
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