Reggae, dancehall, and identity: how Jamaican music transformed British society.
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Nights out dancing! How African and Caribbean music and dance have shaped British culture.
Readers reports, scripts and selected photographs. From top left Garland Anderson, Una Marson and Isabel Cooley who appeared in the ethnic Players Theatre Guild productions of Anna Lucasta.
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Theatre censorship laws stifled Black playwrights for more than 200 years – here’s what we found in the archive.
Analysis shows 21 out of 30 countries on the UK government’s list of repressive regimes received UK military equipment.
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Razor wire, surveillance technologies and gated compounds – welcome to COP27.
There’s still time to avert the worst of climate change.
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Given how much young people have achieved in the fight against climate crisis it’s crucial their voices are really heard at COP27.
Polls Vs betting on who will win control of Congress.
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Who will win the US midterms, the polls, or the gambling markets?
Innovative ideas spring from many sources, research finds.
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Some of the most innovative people in the world earn Nobel Prizes. Scholars of creativity identify what they have in common and what regular people can learn and emulate from their examples.
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Talk of “breaking down the barriers” is all too often a cover for breaking down academic disciplines to create administrative flexibility.
A group of migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat headed in the direction of Dover, Kent.
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Perhaps the best way to understand the reasons why people embark on these journeys is to put yourself in their shoes.
Albarn has apologised ‘unreservedly and unconditionally’ to the US singer Taylor Swift after claiming she didn’t write her own songs.
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Anyone involved in the creation of a song is a songwriter.
Spaces built collaboratively, close to nature.
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What we can learn from squatters, climate protestors and desert hippies.
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During pilgrimage walks, people often observe and appreciate simple things more keenly, feel the spiritual connection with their surroundings and gain new, enriching life perspectives.
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The story can be traced back many centuries to a time of warfare between Christian European countries and the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
An older couple sit outside beach-huts in Bournemouth.
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These ten drawing show the realities of life at the English seaside in 2021.
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In my research, I’ve seen how people can feel a new sense of gratitude, meaning and purpose. They often take up new hobbies and careers. They become less materialistic and more altruistic.
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Welcome to an entirely new understanding of the world.
The pandemic has required teachers to constantly adapt the way they do their jobs.
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More hours of teaching might benefit children’s recovery in the short term but put teachers under dangerous pressure.
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Explaining the rule of law crisis shaking the relationship between Poland and the EU.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a COP26 launch conference in February 2020.
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Electric vehicle sales are booming and coal power is dwindling, but structural obstacles to net zero remain.
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Several schools in Scotland have paused the rollout of facial recognition technology in school canteens following inquiries from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Investors look at stock index screen in Beijing in 2009.
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What does communism 2.0 mean for democracy?