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Nigel Farage and the political power of English grievance

Ailsa Henderson, University of Edinburgh and Richard Wyn Jones, Cardiff University

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Young people in coastal towns are getting left behind – here’s what could help

Sam Whewall, UCL; Avril Keating, UCL, and Emily Clark, UCL

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Treaties like the ECHR protect everyone in the UK, not just migrants

Alice Donald, Middlesex University and Joelle Grogan, University College Dublin

Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson

It’s 25 years since London got a mayor – and our polling reveals discontent

Elizabeth Simon, Queen Mary University of London and Colm Murphy, Queen Mary University of London

The harms of low-blow political satire in a polarised climate

Samuel Clark, University of Reading

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Two charts that lay bare the threat posed by radical right parties to western democracies

Paul Whiteley, University of Essex

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Football fans will see Nigel Farage’s branded kit for the cynical move it is

Josh Bland, University of Cambridge

Nigel Farage chatting to a man over a pint.

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

Tim Beasley-Murray, UCL

Young Europeans are losing faith in democracy – here’s how to earn it back

Patricia Justino, United Nations University

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Why do people riot?

John Drury, University of Sussex

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The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia?

Torbjörn Tännsjö, Stockholm University

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A new way of thinking about empathy could cool Britain’s migration rows

Georgios Karyotis, University of Glasgow; Andrew McNeill, Queen's University Belfast, and Dimitris Skleparis, Newcastle University

A row of police holding back a group of activists with signs reading 'refugees welcome, stop the far right'

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Where you think you are in society (not where you actually are) matters for how you think about inequality

Giacomo Melli, University of Oxford

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Why people reclaim words meant to insult them – and how this has become a powerful tool for protest

Mete Sefa Uysal, University of Exeter and Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, University of St Andrews

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The hubris arc: how visionary politicians turn into authoritarians

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

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As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives?

Giorgia Doná, University of East London; Charlotte Sanders, SOAS, University of London, and Paolo Novak, SOAS, University of London

Online Safety Act: what are the new measures to protect children on social media?

Jess Scott-Lewis, Sheffield Hallam University and Charlotte Coleman, Sheffield Hallam University

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People smugglers adapt to attempts to shut them down – financial sanctions won’t stop the boats

David Suber, University of Oxford

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Windrush scandal: those left to apply for compensation without legal help missed out on tens of thousands of pounds

Jo Wilding, University of Sussex

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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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Tories get ghosted: new study shows dating app users are more likely to swipe right on Reform voters

Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, University of Southampton

Nigel Farage kissing a woman on the cheek.
Hyper-individualistic and focused on worth, the manosphere is a product of neoliberalism

Sophie Lively, Newcastle University

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What I’ve learned from teaching philosophy in prisons

Jim Chamberlain, University of Sheffield

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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

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

Katrin Schreiter, King's College London

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Women

Why thinking about ageing is so complex when you’re a woman in your 20s today

Nadine Shanahan, University of Liverpool

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Men’s concerns are real but backlash is not inevitable – the new rules guiding feminism

Heejung Chung, King's College London

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The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women

Vanita Sundaram, University of York

Gisele Pelicot speaking into microphones with a crowd of supporters behind her.
Why are female politicians more often targeted with violence? New findings confirm depressing suspicions

Gianmarco Daniele, Bocconi University

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