In May 2022, the Office for National Statistics reported that 53% of women claim to feel very unsafe walking on their own at night in an open space and as…

Two books published around the time the NHS celebrated its 75th birthday (July 2023) have different views about the threats it faces. Dr Julia Grace Patterson argues that the history…

In April 2020, the UN secretary general, António Guterres cautioned that COVID-19 started as a public health emergency, but it was rapidly turning into a “human rights crisis.” The Covid-19…

Research on modern slavery and anti-slavery movements seem to have become bogged down in institutional and legal definitions of modern slavery, neglecting ‘the decisive role of circumstantial necessities and perspectives…

That meaningful waged work matters was never in doubt. Not in doubt before, during and after industrialization. At least not in doubt by workers and unions, and rarely questioned by…

In my research career thus far, I have interviewed just shy of 100 sperm and egg donors. When others learn this, their first question is nearly always, ‘why do they…

In April, the BBC Storyville documentary, Deborah James: Bowelbabe in Her Words, was broadcast. Since reality television celebrity Jade Goody’s very public dying a decade earlier, James is the latest…

What is the role of political imagination for social change? Where and how is political imagination practiced today? How are political alternatives imagined, performed and lived out in different contexts…

Robert Frost’s poem is particularly apposite to the issue of class discrimination. Those of us from a rich and diverse range of working class heritages, and who are academics and…