Britain is now desperately short of workers in some sectors. Yet our interviews with 100 women aged 50 and over show how hard it is for them to find secure employment
Prince, Under The Cherry Moon, 1986.
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In contrast to their depiction in most mafia films, women are an integral part of these groups with their own criminal knowledge and capacity for violence
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
A construction worker at the Lusail Stadium, Qatar, in 2019.
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New data mapping death sentences in the Gulf states once again highlights Qatar’s questionable human rights record.
Trust in the ability of the police to investigate rape cases has been severely hampered by very public failings such as the murder of Sarah Everard.
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In England and Wales perpetrators of one of the gravest violent crimes, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, are very unlikely to receive any punishment at all
Ruth Itzhaki has spent more than 30 years researching whether certain common viruses play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s. But for years her research was greeted with hostility.
San Francisco 49ers running back Jeff Wilson Jr (centre) in action against Los Angeles Rams linebacker Leonard Floyd (left) and Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald (right) an NFL game in California in 2022.
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Just months after the end of the second world war, the longest running study of health over the human life course in the world began – and it’s still going.
Art installation ‘Liverpool, Love of My Life’ by Chila Kumari Burman, part of the city’s 2021 River of Light trail.
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From more accurate climate modelling to the prospect of truly creative computers, the brain’s use of noise has a lot to teach us.
The executive of Cumann na mBan in February, 1922. The author’s grandmother can be seen on the second row, third from the right.
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A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown
Hajja Nuzha Al-Najjar in her cave-home in Masafer Yatta. In an oral history interview, she describes being shot in the leg by an Israeli settler in 2005.
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The caves now serve as important safe spaces in an area designated ‘Firing Zone 918’ by Israel, as residents describe a growing wave of forced evictions and building demolitions.