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...socialism’ to deliberately sabotage normal political discourse. As Abraham Lincoln warned, "a house divided cannot stand".When Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President two days after MLK day, he may well give a speech articulating his own dream of harmony, a desire to shift away from Trump’s American carnage. But this crisis has been years, generations, in the...

...social media, linking protesters around the globe. [The Conversation] The protests, which spread from the initial Women’s March on Washington, spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, resulted in what was allegedly the largest day of protests in US history. That it was a triumph of activism for and by women is beyond doubt. But the fact...

...social, political, reputational and cultural regeneration. These processes have picked up pace since 2003, when Liverpool was announced as the 2008 European Capital of Culture. This accolade proved to be the catalyst for a range of initiatives to “clean up” the city, ready for its big year. Like many other cities across the globe – New York, during its 1990s drive...

...social divisions and disenchantments, but these were collapsed into simplifying binaries: hard or soft, in or out, authentic or false, with us or against us. Complexity and nuance – the stuff in trade of good social science research – has little place in such a world. How might researchers respond? Firstly, I think, we need to avoid using methods that categorise...

...work in the UK. Yet doctors and nurses from the EEA may no longer have the right to do so. Dr Parvati Raghuram looks at how the NHS has depended on foreign workers since its creation...[NHS leaflet 1948] NHS leaflet from 1948 The claim that the National Health Service (NHS) would get an additional £350m per week if the UK quit the EU was arguably one of the most...