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Chris Allen (Birmingham University) Ten years ago, Kenan Malik invited me to take part in a provocatively titled [...]
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Jameel Hadi (University of Salford) Increasing numbers of children are being taken into care at the same time as [...]
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Megan Dottermusch (North Western University) Family life is very different from how it was 65 years ago. Modern [...]
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Graham Murdock (Loughborough University) The current struggle over the future of the BBC is part of a wider [...]
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