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Yasmin Gunaratnam (Goldsmiths, University of London) In an undated lecture, ‘The Problem Patient’, the doctor Cicely Saunders, presented [...]

Alice Bloch (University of Manchester), Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) and Roger Zetter (University of Oxford) Most European [...]

Ruben Andersson (London School of Economics and Political Science) It is without doubt one of the most iconic [...]

Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London)  Over the last thirty years, sovereignty has become an endangered concept,(1) and [...]

Julia Willén (Linköping University)   We aim, politically, at government of the Africans by the Africans, for the Africans, with [...]

Jo Warner (University of Kent) For some 40 years, responses to the deaths of children from abuse and [...]

Ansgar Allen (University of Sheffield) It is hard to exaggerate the sad plight faced by today’s educators. They [...]

Andrew Dunn (University of Lincoln) The Coalition government has increased the number of conditions attached to receiving unemployment [...]

Oliver Smith (University of Plymouth) and Thomas Raymen (Durham University) The widespread importation of the US shopping phenomenon [...]

Image: Beth Sporne, pincponc2 John Hills (London School of Economics)   Britain’s welfare state now accounts for two-thirds of all [...]