The past 300 years show us that shoplifting is a crime rooted in complex societal as well as economic issues. But who deserves our sympathy: the robbers or the robbed?
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The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
The water regulator has issued a record £168m fine to Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water for a ‘catalogue of failure’ regarding illegal sewage discharges – with more fines expected to follow.
Choosing to hasten one’s death is an intensely personal, carefully considered decision. But it is rarely made in isolation.
Loneliness comes in many forms and can strike at any time and at any age.
Growing numbers of insurgents, terrorists and extremists are using the FGC-9 3D-printed gun. Here’s what I learned about the man who created it, and the dark world he inhabited
As Euro 2024 kicks off, the governing body of European football is urgently trying to recruit thousands of new grassroots officials. Is football really in danger of running out of referees?
On the trail of Convoy 31000 – the only transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau that was made up entirely of women deported from France for political activities.
Our new report has produced the world’s first estimate of the scale of online child sexual exploitation.
A tour of the US was the culmination of an extraordinary peace campaign that gathered 390,296 signatures from women all over Wales. So why does it not appear in any history books?
One person still dies every three days in the UK after receiving contaminated blood in the 1970s and ‘80s. This global scandal has has devastated many families, including those with haemophilia
This is what I’ve learned from interviewing hundreds of people who harm themselves
Looking through the archive of an arts magazine I discovered how Ballard was trying out an early form of computer-generated poetry.
One hundred years after the Italian opposition leader’s murder, documents long locked away at the London School of Economics could shed new light on Mussolini’s involvement in his death
We have spent a decade researching what’s behind the extraordinary revival of vinyl records, film cameras and other ‘old school’ technology
My passion for earthworms and ecology led me to continuing Darwin’s experiments in his own ‘back garden’
Stereotypes can creep in if ‘culturally sensitive’ robots are not designed with great care.
Over the past decade, I have documented the erosion of India’s once robustly democratic legal system as part of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘authoritarian playbook’
Unlike the risks from AI’s capabilities, the economic risks from new technologies are knowable and can be mitigated
This is the moment of truth. John’s story is no longer trapped in the clinical pages of a case file. ‘I’ve lost everything,’ he says. ‘I might as well be dead.’
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Professor of Social History, The Open University
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Visiting Researcher,, University of Oxford
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Neurology, UCL
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Professor Emeritus of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology, UCL
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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
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Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Work, Queen Mary University of London
