Politics + Society

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Jurors aren’t impartial – that’s exactly why they are so important to justice

Elaine Jackson, University of Glasgow; University of the West of Scotland; Lee John Curley, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Martin Lages, University of Glasgow

Limiting jury trials will harm minority ethnic victims and defendants, research shows

Tara Lai Quinlan, University of Birmingham and Katharina Karcher, University of Birmingham

Reform’s £9m gift and the rise of the political mega-donor

Sam Power, University of Bristol

Zarah Sultana sitting several rows behind Jeremy Corbyn in an audience.

Your Party: if the name sounds terrible, there’s a good reason for it

Nicholas Dickinson, University of Exeter

Low-tax or high-welfare? The UK must decide what type of country it wants to be

Christopher Adam, University of Oxford and İrem Güçeri, University of Oxford

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‘A united left? It’s been tanked’ – what I heard when I went to Your Party’s first conference

Parveen Akhtar, Aston University

Jury trials: what the UK government’s plan to limit them would mean for victims, defendants and courts

Daniel Alge, Brunel University of London

Justice Secretary David Lammy wearing a wig and robe

Visual thinking: the strategy that could help you spot misinformation and manipulated images

Shaun Nolan, Malmö University

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Net migration has dropped to pre-Brexit levels – why it may not be enough to satisfy voters

Mihnea Cuibus, University of Oxford

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Why Rachel Reeves chose to disappoint voters with her budget

Patrick Diamond, Queen Mary University of London

Will the budget save Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer? Experts give their views

Thomas Caygill, Nottingham Trent University; Alex Prior, London South Bank University; Colm Murphy, Queen Mary University of London; Despina Alexiadou, University of Strathclyde , and Paula Keaveney, Edge Hill University

Starmer and Reeves chatting in a hallway in Downing Street

‘Mansplaining’ is different from other criticism – and Rachel Reeves is right to call it out

Louise Ashley, Queen Mary University of London and Elena Doldor, Queen Mary University of London

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Why economic insecurity – not immigration – should be Labour’s top electoral priority

Justin Robinson, University of Oxford

Rachel Reeves walks in a blur past Number 11 holding her red budget box

Polls say Starmer and Reeves are the most unpopular PM and chancellor ever – what’s a fair way to judge them?

Christopher Byrne, University of Nottingham

UK to overhaul asylum policy – will the new measures work?

Jonathan Darling, Durham University

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The UK has praised India’s digital ID system – but it’s locked millions out of their legitimate benefits

Charlotte Goodburn, King's College London

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The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research

Christopher Opie, University of Bristol and Quentin Douglas Atkinson, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

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Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two

Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham

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Glow-up course

How to make a change in your life – and stick to it

Abigail Parrish, University of Sheffield

How to argue without falling out – an expert guide

Jessica Robles, Loughborough University

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Feel like you’re in a funk? Here’s what you can do to get out of it – and how you can prevent it from happening in the future

Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

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How to get control of your time

Boróka Bó, University College Dublin and Kamila Kolpashnikova, Western University

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Editors' picks

The hubris arc: how visionary politicians turn into authoritarians

Trang Chu, University of Oxford and Tim Morris, University of Oxford

An illustration of a giant man looking down on people.

How domestic abusers use emotional bonding to control their victims – new study

Mags Lesiak, University of Cambridge

Politics has always been a game – but why does it now feel like we’re being cheated?

Tim Beasley-Murray, UCL

The board for the original Landlord's Game, now known as Monopoly.

What interviews with ordinary Germans living under the Nazis can teach us about our current politics

Melissa Butcher, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Cities

A young woman walking alone along a lit path in a park at night

Women are three times as likely as men to feel unsafe in parks – here’s how we can design them better

Anna Barker, University of Leeds; Jennie Gray, University of Leeds, and Vikki Houlden, University of Leeds

Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)

Noortje Marres, University of Warwick

People walking in a crowd, with blue facial recognition squares over their faces

Thirty-five years since the wall fell, Berlin is divided – over what to do with crumbling communist buildings

Katrin Schreiter, King's College London