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The Clerk of the Chamber of the Crown Office in the House of Lords presents the Queen’s seal affixed to the royal charter document, conferring city status on Brighton and Hove in 2001. Roger Bamber / Alamy Stock Photo

February 4, 2022

UK city status: why even small towns compete for the royal honour

John Beckett, University of Nottingham

To fête the 70th year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, several towns – and a few villages – are to be granted the royal right to call themselves cities.

November 18, 2020

UK government expands its ‘Blue Belt’ of protected ocean – but something’s fishy

Peter Howson, Northumbria University, Newcastle

The Blue Belt is a network of marine protected areas 17 times larger than the UK.

October 23, 2018

Protected marine areas seem a good idea – but they may have insidious political effects

Sue Farran, Northumbria University, Newcastle

An effort to increase such areas can pose a particular threat to island overseas territories.

Before financial services, the Isle of Man’s economy relied on tourism. shutterstock.com

November 9, 2017

The Isle of Man is a tax haven – but its prosperity has precarious roots

Pete Hodson, Queen's University Belfast

From ‘holiday isle’ to ‘tax haven’: the Isle of Man is no paradise for locals.

French armed forces prepare aid and assistance to French territories in the Caribbean. Guillaume Cabre/Defense Armee de Terre

September 11, 2017

Hurricane Irma’s devastation of Caribbean territories piles pressure on strained relationship with UK

Alasdair Pinkerton, Royal Holloway University of London and Matthew Benwell, Newcastle University

The aid and assistance Britain’s Caribbean territories will need to rebuild will make highlight the fault lines in the relationship between Westminster and its former colonies.

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