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...become the next president of France. The result is, of course, in all sorts of ways extraordinary. In a little over a year, the 39-year-old former finance minister has gone from being a wannabe to the future tenant of the Elysée Palace. He struck out alone to form his own political movement and while much of the froth surrounding the election has focused on his opponent,...

...become an asylum applicant and be recognised as a refugee in Britain, migrants need to be on UK territory. However, the UK – like most countries in Europe that have signed the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees the key legal document in defining who is a refugee according to the UN – is making it increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to...

...become close due to shared emotional and community (rather than biological) bonds. I personally prefer the term used by Armistead Maupin's wonderful character, Anna Madrigal. She referred to the group who rented rooms at her house in San Francisco as her 'logical family'. As Jacqui Gabb's own research has suggested, we may also need to expand out 'family' to encompass our...