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...skills are well-known. So too is his adeptness at using executive patronage to secure the loyalty of party members as has been made clear in the revelations arising from his links to the Gupta family. The secret ballot saga But the back story to the unprecedented rebellion within his own party was the method of voting as much as Zuma’s political skullduggery. For the...

...study that would become the book Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK began on WhatsApp. As my academic colleague Claire and I shared yet another voice note conversation that had me nodding in recognition and the typed response of ‘same’ pinging through each of our phones, we began to realise something profound. This was...

...studies might get closer to how people feel than many of the big claims currently going around in journalism (and some social science writing) about politics. They might also help with the second problem: Can people feel more than one thing? Too often we assume people to be simple souls, capable of feeling or thinking only one thing at a time. On any given day, confronted...