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These seven cli-fi novels will get you fired up for action.
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We may think tattooing is a modern phenomenon, but the reasons for its popularity are not dissimilar to those seen in the prisons and convict ships of the Victorian era.
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There are record numbers of rough sleepers in some cities, yet the most common approaches adopted at tackling it are ineffective.
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A revolution in ownership must be at the heart of a Green New Deal.
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Societies have much to learn from the pursuit of happiness on an individual level.
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Wars don’t produce winners and losers – they never really did.
Goldsmith Street, a social housing development which won the 2019 RIBA Stirling prize for architecture.
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For decades, social housing has been defunded and ignored. The system is now broken, and it needs to be fixed.
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This 1,000-year-old institution is not the solution to ageing Britain – here’s why.
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Many trendy ‘Instagrammable’ foods have a long association with poverty.
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More attention needs to be paid to loneliness’s complex history.
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The pipeline for new antibiotics is broken. It is time to think outside the box.
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Adult education should never be seen as a luxury.
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Performances of prison life are commonplace nowadays in gulag museums. Visitors can vividly imagine it all – the tears, pain and despair.
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From Boris Johnson to Donald Trump, a new breed of bullshitting politicians is flourishing.
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With the promise of more periods of intense rainfall in years to come, what do we need to do to protect ourselves more from flooding in future?
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There are calls to boycott the latest release due to the game’s questionable depiction of Russia.
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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
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A new group – Tsunami Democràtic – are using technology to create civil disobedience that is more organised and creative than ever.
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These inspirational food sharing initiatives around the world demonstrate that sustainable food system can – and should – be democratic.
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Governments fail to imagine how worst-case scenarios can come about – much less plan for them. But there are things we can do.