The government is under relentless pressure from the UK media to relax the strict lockdown rules. That could be a dangerous mistake.
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has called for fewer cars and better public transport.
More often than not, governments decide what ‘the best available evidence’ is.
Behavioural science explained.
The British currency is showing the strain of the government’s rescue plan.
Why ‘stigmatising’ and ‘traumatising’ approaches to FGM safeguarding are in urgent need of a review.
Letting the virus ‘pass through the community’ is not a good public health strategy.
The government’s “whatever it takes” promise to NHS is all very well, but UK healthcare is a long way from being ready to deal with a major outbreak.
Dominic Cummings should read up on a deeply flawed experiment from the 1940s before he reads through those job applications.
The Health of Nations report outlines the UK’s plans for extending the number of years people live in good health.
Free speech is too important to leave it to a government regulator to decide what should be banned.
HS2 will provide an economic boost to cities in the north and midlands of England.
Buying the biggest and best technology is always going to be high risk and expensive.
Boris Johnson has proposed the public ‘bung a bob for a Big Ben bong’ to commemorate Brexit.
The public inquiry into Grenfell makes its first report – but those responsible for the circumstances leading up to the fire are yet to face the consequences.
How much more suffering and death will people who use drugs have to endure?
A new report has found funding shortfalls are forcing schools to make difficult decisions about which pupils get support.
Reforms to the way local authorities are funded are probably the most radical – and least discussed – changes made by the Conservative government.
The UK government has been trying to hand planning power over to local people for 50 years – but research reveals it has fallen far short of its goals.
Faced with open and hidden prejudice, some British Muslims downplay their difference in public in order to succeed.
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
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Professor in Finance, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Stirling
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Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
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Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York
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Professor of Society and the Internet, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Virology and President of Research-Aid Networks, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer in Economics | Freelance Consultant, Sheffield Hallam University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
