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...families with absent fathers, and the disappearance of men from professions in regular contact with boys. With regard to the latter, much of the discussion has centred on education, and particularly primary schools, where there appears to have been a real decline in the proportion of male teachers. Recent years have also witnessed a series of campaigns to increase men’s...

...family and friends and therefore deprive them of an important source of support. Not only are jurors isolated from family support, formal support through the courts is also lacking. Currently support for jurors in England and Wales consists of signposting to their GP and the charity Samaritans. With NHS mental health support service overstretched, jurors may struggle to...

...family and friends get together and embrace. Visiting relatives to drop off sweets and presents and exchange intimacies at 10-15 metres apart does not feel natural. This year under social distancing the usual physical intimacies of hugging were not possible. This Eid Mubarak digital card, designed by Thanu, herself a Sinhalese Buddhist, offers warm greetings and best...

...history. It’s hard to imagine an out-of-date crop being useful. Harder still to see the use of a crop wild relative. However, and perhaps surprisingly, these old plant varieties could be key to our future global food security. Rather than seeing these plants as whole, coherent varieties, plant scientists increasingly see them as big bundles of genetic traits. So while...