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When England play a match, there’s a 26% increase in reports of domestic abuse. When they lose, reports go up 38%.
The loss of a one-time panorama building, reminds us how these 360° viewing experiences transformed the way people saw the world.
Song by song streaming services may be hurting the album commercially, but its place in our cultural lexicon will be harder to shake.
England’s on-field performances have been matched by some fairly forgettable songs over the years.
How medieval scientists grappled with the conflicting ‘truths’ of creationism and the eternity of the world.
Every England fan in Moscow knows that that football is ‘coming home’, but can England really claim to be where the world’s most popular sport rests its head?
The Booker Prize is 50 – and to celebrate it, there’s a mega prize.
The beautiful game still needs to perform on bigger social issues.
The ability to speak more than one language informs many writers of fiction, but analysis of Booker Prize shortlists suggests this is not so important any more.
Real life attackers won’t follow a carefully choreographed fight sequence – that’s why training is essential.
The television presenter and the scientist are having an argument about God on Twitter, and Morgan is getting a lot of stick. That’s not fair.
Monster movies are currently rampaging across the globe. Their popularity shows us how Hollywood’s place in world cinema is changing.
Primary school children in France will now have to learn and sing La Marseillaise. But for many people, it is racist and xenophobic.
Soon after the death of Franco, Spain began an experiment with censorship that brought graphic sex and nudity to mainstream cinemas.
Thanks to the #metoo and ‘everyday sexism’ movements, the sexism at this World Cup is not going unnoticed.
Why don’t politicians just say what they mean? Because we might not like it.
Five questions about World Cup fandom, answered by psychology.
Welcome to the wonderful world of kamishibai – a centuries-old Japanese storytelling tradition.
Local Hero swerved easy stereotyping in favour of nuance, charm and sly, gentle comedy, but can it be as great a musical as it was a film?
The HBO series was a big hit in 2008, but is it still relevant two decades on?
Move over Netflix, here’s whodunnit by headphones.
Excavations on the site of Rome’s greatest natural disaster can tell us a lot about attitudes to death.
Teenagers often don’t understand what emotional abuse is – and shows such as Love Island can make it seem normal.
It is still unhelpful and hyperbolic to compare the Trump administration with the Nazi regime. But we must be aware of similarities, too.