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The government will not meet its pledge to halve violence against women and girls unless it tackles tech companies ...

Trump’s trillion-dollar cuts to health and EDI show that, if racial equity is to survive, it must be constitutional ...

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The Libyan Coast Guard attacked a rescue ship in international waters, but EU shows no sign of ending partnership ...

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Godwin's law, the adage that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one", reflects the fact that one of the surest ways to ...

Why is Britain the country of commonsense, rather than high theory? A brief history of the ideology of anti-intellectualism and conservatism in the UK. In a recent article published on openDemocracy ...