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British food: Moving beyond crisis Featuring: audio, New contentCreative Commons Image The Open University

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University), Sanjay Kumar (Guest), Julian Cottee (Guest)

22 May 2012

Have supermarkets got too much power? Have we lost touch with seasonal and local food in favour of convenience choice? Our panel discuss the future...  Read more : British food: Moving beyond crisis

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The end of the line: Is fishing in crisis?New contentCreative Commons Image Rockyeda under CC-BY licence

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

22 May 2012

The once-abundant oceans are running short of fish, while trawlers discard edible catch. Can slow food offer a solution before it's too late?  Read more : The end of the line: Is fishing in crisis?

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Our Crime: who said what? Featuring: activity, Copyrighted Image Montage: The Open University Individual elements copyright held by their respective owners.

By Dr Richard Hester (The Open University), The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

30 March 2012

Can you match the quotes about crime to the people who said them?  Read more : Our Crime: who said what?

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Looking through the glass floorThe Open University

By John Grayson (Guest)

14 March 2012

John Grayson works with the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action group (SYMAAG). As private security firms hit the news, he writes about how they...  Read more : Looking through the glass floor

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'Hate the poor!': the new politics of loathing in vitriolic BritainCreative Commons Image RM London under CC-BY-NC licence

By Dr Mark Smith (The Open University)

29 February 2012

In light of a new Social Attitudes Survey, Mark J Smith examines why problems in the UK are being blamed on the most vulnerable    Read more : 'Hate the poor!': the new politics of loathing in vitriolic Britain

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Brave New World re-imagined Creative Commons Image By Abode of Chaos via Flickr under Creative Commons license

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

24 January 2012

80 years since the publication of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World, Geoff Andrews wonders how it might be re-imagined today in the context...  Read more : Brave New World re-imagined

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The power of secrets and life on Islands Of PrivacyCreative Commons Image Lauren Manning under CC-BY licence

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Dr Christena Nippert-Eng (Guest)

02 August 2011

Our secrets, and how we choose to share them, form a type of currency, which can make loss of privacy an attack on how we...  Read more : The power of secrets and life on Islands Of Privacy

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Calling home: How mobile phones allow migrant parents to keep in touchCreative Commons Image Swinimal under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Dr Christena Nippert-Eng (Guest), Dr Mirca Madianou (Guest), Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest)

02 August 2011

The Philippines economy relies on emigrant workers; increasingly, those workers are relying on mobile phones and web messaging to keep in touch with their growing...  Read more : Calling home: How mobile phones allow migrant parents to keep in touch

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Why Liverpool 8 exploded - and what happened nextCreative Commons Image John S Turner under CC-BY-SA licence

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Dr Richard Phillips (Guest), Dr Diane Frost (Guest)

26 July 2011

Thirty years after the centre of Liverpool was the site of sustained rioting, a new book explores the causes, and finds out what happened next....  Read more : Why Liverpool 8 exploded - and what happened next

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Review: The Idea Of JusticeCreative Commons Image OECD under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Charles Barclay Roger (Guest)

25 July 2011

The urgency for philosophers to abandon their castles in the air is caught in Amartya Sen's The Idea Of Justice, says Charles Barclay Roger.  Read more : Review: The Idea Of Justice

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