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The policing of black British culture has a long history.
Nelson Mandela garnered much support from the UK during apartheid in opposition of the then government’s stance.
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From the early 1980s, local governments in the UK began renaming streets, housing estates and community centres after Mandela as an act of protest.
A sad fate for England’s bus service.
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An expert crunches the numbers to reveal just how bleak Britain’s bus crisis has become.
It’s not natural.
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London doesn’t meet the criteria for a national park – not even close. Calling it that could undermine the label itself.
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A Heathrow expansion is going to benefit the rich and hurt the poor.
Green rooftops give a backyard feel to smaller housing units in Sydney
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Research shows if Australia encourages greenery on buildings, it will reduce temperatures in the city, as well as potential for flash flooding. It also creates new habitats and socialising spaces.
Snot funny.
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Getting rid of this scourge is nothing to be sneezed at.
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London’s super rich are building thousands of subterranean palaces.
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New research has rubbished perceptions of Roman Britain as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans.
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When big data is used for police profiling and surveillance, it puts human rights on the line.
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TfL’s money troubles worsen, as passenger numbers fall for the first time in two decades.
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From Dundee to Dublin, horror spectaculars are springing up like zombies from the dead.
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Voting is all over the place in 2018. But Labour is the party with most to think about after this result.
A vigil in Finsbury Park following an attack on pedestrians outside a mosque in 2017.
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While Islamophobic acts in Paris mainly take place in public institutions, in London they’re mainly on the street or on public transport.
Tributes in Tottenham, London.
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The British government is not facing up to the serious challenges it faces.
Police at the scene of a fatal stabbing of a 20-year-old man in Hackney, London on April 4.
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There have been more than 50 murders in London already in 2018, and more in February and March than in New York.
A car drives past a poster depicting Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Houla village, southern Lebanon.
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Closing the loophole: why the UK government must clip Hezbollah’s ‘wings’.
People stroll along Moshoeshoe Street in Emfuleni.
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By expanding our understanding of streets and enhancing their design, every street corner could become a space to socialise, to exercise, to play, or to trade.
The spectre of Brexit hangs over the City of London.
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The EU has ruled out any cherry picking from the UK for things like single market access for financial services.
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The congestion charge has helped to ease traffic and raise funds. But the rise of Uber and other private hire vehicles have raised unforeseen challenges.