A charity claims that to remove shame and stigma around menstruation, both boys and girls should be taught about periods at school.
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Working-class men have a reputation for repressing their emotions but a new study suggests that might be changing.
Red makes a big impact, studies show.
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Colour can have surprising effects on us, which we are only now beginning to understand.
Which way to Downing Street?
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It might seem like a long shot but Cable can’t do anything with his party unless he believes he can make it to government.
Kate Tempest who is on the shortlist for the Hyundai Mercury Prize 2017.
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The Mercury Prize still relies on the album format in an age of downloads and streaming.
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Liverpool City Council has been monitoring communications from citizens – who probably thought they were reaching out in confidence.
So … the thing is.
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The company is now in need of some serious crisis management.
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Anxieties about hoodlums in cars was just another expression of an age-old fear of change.
George Vasey, The Philosophy of Laughter and Smiling (1875).
Have you heard the one about the Victorian sense of humour?
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In this episode of the podcast, we take in the history of Victorian humour, why kids find poo so hilarious and whether academics should try and be funny.
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To pitch an alternative timeline, you first have to believe a particular narrative of real history. That’s where things can go wrong.
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… and does it work?
Signage outside the Winterbourne View residential hospital in Bristol.
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People with learning disabilities need to have a say in the government policy that rules their lives.
No time to waste.
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What does his party stand for and what does it want to do about Brexit? Some big questions need answering, and fast.
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Faced with the prospect of constant online attack, why would anyone want to get into politics?
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The UK’s blue light services need to adapt and modernise or they will face their own emergency.
Part of Feltham Young Offenders Institution has been deemed ‘not safe for either staff or boys’.
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A judge has ruled that placing a 16-year-old in solitary confinement breached his human rights.
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Try thinking of exercise as fun and something to enjoy with friends.
The state opening of parliament was a toned down affair this year.
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The parliamentary year looks set to be focused on Brexit, and with battles ahead, Theresa May has backed out of a flurry of planned legislation.
Leader of Finsbury Park mosque, Mohammed Kozbar, speaks to media after the attack as Jeremy Corbyn looks on.
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