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Society, Politics & Law
Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility
The idea of climate change is increasingly well-known, but it can be hard to understand its effects in human terms. Professor David Humphreys describes how he experienced Climate Change first hand when working in Bangladesh for The Open University.
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Society, Politics & Law
Key events in Scotland, 1920s-2016: A timeline
An interactive timeline of the most important events in Scottish political, cultural and economic history.
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Society, Politics & Law
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Is there a third way that the country can unite around?
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Society, Politics & Law
Northern Ireland’s dance to the music of time of Brexit
A Brexit settlement is dependent on Northern Ireland and Dr Leslie Budd discusses the complexed border issue.
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Society, Politics & Law
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
It's been over two years since the UK voted to leave the EU. What's the current situation with Brexit? Professor Norman Clark provides an update.
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Society, Politics & Law
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Are vulnerable citizens being neglected by the elite who can decide their fate? Dave Middleton investigates.
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Society, Politics & Law
The growing demand for drugs in UK prisons
With prisons and the justice system in the headlines once more, Dr David Scott explores the issue of drug smuggling in UK prisons.
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Society, Politics & Law
International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Potential NHS staff from outside of European Economic Area (EEA) will shortly find it easier to secure permission to 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.
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
While austerity isn’t over, governments have stopped trying to scare us about the scale of their debts – thanks to a big change in the way economies make money, and economists understand it, writes Alan Shipman.
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Society, Politics & Law
How is Milton Keynes a ‘smart’ city?
What is a ‘smart city’, and how is smart rooted into Milton Keynes’ past and future?
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Society, Politics & Law
What is economics?
When you think of economics, what do you think of? The Chancellor, the economy? Well it’s about much more, covering the personal, national and global aspects of our lives.
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Digital & Computing
Cyber Security
What is cyber security? What do we need to know to keep us safe?