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Are British universities under threat of censorship?
What are the ethics of teaching children about the army as part of the national curriculum?
There’s a science to understanding the ways that trust is formed, broken and rebuilt.
The estimated economic value of minimising the damage to public health has been reduced by 80 percent.
We need to learn the skills of living together.
A basic lack of fairness holds us all back.
UK must now respond to arrival of fentanyl, which has for years been a major drug problem in the US and Canada.
Despite the surge of community support after the Grenfell Tower fire, the failure of the local council and the government to respond appropriately has caused anger, offence and further suffering.
No democratic government should be able to manipulate the public by getting a sneak peek at the data.
No one party is responsible for the disaster: local or national, Labour or Conservative – they all are.
Making manifesto promises is a misleading trend that is distorting the role of politicians and parliament
The symptoms are clear, but the cure will remain elusive until we recognise the many sources of the problem.
The powers that be don’t want to scare us.
Archaic vagrancy acts and Public Spaces Protection Laws turn washing, sleeping and begging into punishable offences.
Government departments have been squeezed particularly hard over the past few years. Now they need to find thousands of people who can work out how to leave the EU.
Star Wars fantasy or effective weapon system of the future?
An MP’s attempt to block a bill to address violence against women was utterly misguided – here’s why.
It’s not in developers’ interests to flood the market with new housing – so will the government step in?
The GDS has built the foundations of digital government, but they’re being undermined.
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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
